Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Pearse, Wilfred William (1901-1926)

updated March 9, 2014.

b. September 16, 1870, Plymouth -d.1927. MB 1893, CM, DPH 1894, MD 1906 [1] (Aber.). Assistant Medical Officer, Shoreditch Infirmary, London 1894. Hong Kong June 1901. RAMC, Hong Kong 1914-17; England January - August, 1918, March - September, 1919; Commander January 1918; final rank, Captain.

HONG KONG June 1901. Government doctor, Assistant Medical Officer of Health August 19, 1901-08; Acting Medical Officer of Health, Sanitary Superintendent and Superintendent of Statistics 1903, March 16, 1905, March 9, 1908, April 28, 1915; Medical Officer of Health (vice Francis William Clark, retired) November 29, 1915; Acting Colonial Veterinary Surgeon (vice Adam Gibson) May 18, 1917, July 12, 1920; Acting Secretary, Food Committee (Vice Adam Gibson) August 30, 1917; retired on pension October 29, 1926. HKCMC lecturer in Chemistry and Physics 1903-05, Public Health 1906-12, Physiology 1901-03; transferred from HKCMC to Faculty of Medicine, HKU 1912 [2], Lecturer in Public Health 1912-21. Hong Kong Volunteer Reserve October 1914. JP (Official) 1902-25. Club: Hong Kong.

s/o William H.P. Pearse (MD, Edin. 1851).

Publications: Plague in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Government Printer, 1905.

[1] Pearse received his MD with Highest Honor; his thesis was "A Contribution to the Study of Plague".

[2] HKCMC teaches transferred to the staff of the Faculty of Medicine, HKU in 1912 were: Francis William Clark, Charles Forsyth, Arthur C. Franklin, Gregory Paul Jordan, Frederick Theobald Keyt, Wilfred Vincent Miller Koch, Harold MacFarlane, Oswald Marriott and Wilfred William Pearse.

Selected bibliography: Anderson, P.J. (Ed.), Roll of Service in the Great War, 1914-1919, University of Aberdeen, Roll of Graduates. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 14, 1901, #497; June 3, 1902, #332; March 17, 1905, #173; March 6, 1908, #133; May 7, 1915, #196, May 25, 1917, #236; August 31, 1917, #388; July 16, 1920, #382. Lucas, Edward Verrall, Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, November 25, 1927, p.8.

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