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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Pears    
First Name(s)  Thomas Townsend    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1809    
Death Year  1892    
Entry  Born May 9, 1809 : son of the Rev. Dr. James Pears: educated at Addiscombe : went to Madras in the E. I. Co.'s Engineers, 1826 : Superintending Engineer, 1828 : Chief Engineer with the Kurnool Force, 1839 : Commanding Engineer in the China war, 1840-2, under Sir Hugh Gough : Brevet-Major and C.B., 1842 : Consulting Engineer for railways at Madras, 1851-7 : Chief Engineer, P.W.D., in Mysore, 1860 : retired, 1861, as Maj- General : Secretary in the Military Department at the India Office, 1861-77 : K.C.B., 1871 : died Oct. 7, 1892.     
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