George Godfrey Pearse
| Major George Godfrey Pearse | |||
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| Born | 1827 | ||
| Died | 1905 | ||
| Occupation | armed services | ||
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Major George G Pearse RA (military/naval; British; Male; 1827 - 1905; presumed birth and death years)
An officer in the Royal Artillery, he presented a collection of South Indian Iron Age tools to the BM in 1868. This collection is the first excavated (in 1867) and identified Iron Age material from South India and it was published in an article in the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London in its first volume (see above). Major G G Pearse is very likely to be General George Godfrey Pearse R A (1827-1905) whose personal diaries, papers, letters, etc are in the British Library, the Royal Artillery Museum and Trinity College, Cambridge. (See the National Archives website: www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/pidocs.asp). His diaries in the BL date from the time when he was Lt. Pearse.
NB. Coins of the Andhra dynasty collected by General Godfrey Pearse as noted in the British Museum Catalogue of Indian Coins, were presented by the Government of India (through J.H. Marshall, Director General of Archaeology in India) to the British Museum in 1908 (see H.A. Grueber's Preface to BMC Indian Coins of the Andhra dynasty..., 1908)
Lt (later General) George Godfrey Pearse, 1827-1905
He served in the Madras Artillery from 1845 and later became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery. This diary covers his service during the period 1848-1849 including the siege of Multan, 1848-1849 in the 1st Sikh War, and on the Afghan frontier.
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On the excavation of a large raised stone circle or barrow near the village of Wurreegaon, one mile from the military station of Kamptee, Central Provinces of India [23 mar 1869]
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Coins of the Andhra dynasty collected by General Godfrey Pearse as noted in the British Museum Catalogue of Indian Coins, were presented by the Government of India (through J.H. Marshall, Director General of Archaeology in India) to the British Museum in 1908
