Background
PEARSE, Albert William was born in 1857 in Hornsey, London. Son of L. F. Pearse.
PEARSE, Albert William was born in 1857 in Hornsey, London. Son of L. F. Pearse.
Studied at Islington Proprietary School. Deal College, Kent.
Went to sea as a midshipman, 1875. Passed for second and chief mate, and for captain in Mercantile Marine in London. Was for some years officer in Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, to West Indies and Brazil.
Then in Orient S. N. Company. Left sea in 1887; went to New. Justice of the Peace, General Manager, Editor, and half proprietor of The Pastoralists’ Review; Editor of Australian Meat Trades Journal.
Spouse 1889, Emily Mary, daughter of late J. T. Mills of Cookham, Bucks.