Edmund Radcliffe Pears

Pears joined the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June 1885.^[1] He took part in the Benin Expedition of 1897, for which he was promoted to commander on 25 May 1897.^[2]

He was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Perseus in early 1901, when the ship was commissioned to form part of the East Indies fleet.^[3] He was in charge when in September 1901 she prevented the landing of Turkish troops at Kuwait.^[4] The following year he was in charge when troops from the Perseus demolished the fort at Balhaf in response to pirate activities by the locals there.^[5]

• Portraits of Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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