Francis Barrow Pearce (16 September 1866 – 11 June 1926) was a British imperial administrator and author. He was acting Commissioner of

Nyasaland Nyasaland () was a British protectorate located in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasala ...

(now

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

) from 1 April 1907 to September 1907 and acting Governor of Nyasaland from 1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910. In 1914, he became

British Resident in Zanzibar British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

, working alongside the protectorate's High Commissioner

Henry Conway Belfield Sir Henry Conway Belfield, (29 November 1855 – 8 January 1923) was an English colonial administrator. The son of John Belfield, Justice of the peace, JP, of Primley Hill, South Devon, and of Eliza Conway Bridges, daughter of Captain George Br ...

. In 1920, his ''Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa'' was published in Great Britain by T. F. Unwin.

Bibliography

*
Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa
' (1920) * ''Rambles in Lion Land: Three Months' Leave Passed in Somaliland''

Papers

*''Le bassin de la haute Wichéra'' with Louis Duparc and Margarita N. Tikhonovich in Volume 3 of ''Recherches géologiques et pétrologiques sur l'Oural du nord'' (1909)

References

Governors of Nyasaland 1866 births 1926 deaths People from Marylebone Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George {{UK-bio-stub