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 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 Nyasaland. After ...

(now

Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

) 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, working alongside the protectorate's High Commissioner Henry Conway Belfield. 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