Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lyons Otway Pearson (1831–30 May 1890) was Assistant Commissioner (Executive) of the

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Metropolitan Police from 1881 to 1890. Pearson was the son of Henry Shepherd Pearson and Caroline Lyons, daughter of

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(1854–1855), he served as aide-de-camp to General Sir George Brown, and was present at

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In 1856, Pearson married Laura Elizabeth Frederica Markham, great-granddaughter of William Markham. They had two sons: Charles Lyons Markham Pearson and Richard Frederick Sydney Pearson. Pearson retired from the army in 1864 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1881 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. In June 1887, he was made a

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(CB). He was also a Justice of the Peace for

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. He died after a prolonged illness while still serving in the Metropolitan Police.

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