Sir Steuart Edmund Pears, KCIE, CSI (1875 – 9 September 1931) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he spent most of his career in the Political Department of the Government of India.[1]
He was British Resident in Mysore from 1925 to 1930 and Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province from 1930 until death the following year.
On 9 September 1931, Pears died after falling off a cliff in Nathia Gali, the summer headquarters of the government.[2]
^"Sir Steuart Pears". The Times. 10 September 1931. p. 14.
^"Sir Steuart Pears Killed". The Times. 10 September 1931. p. 12.
Sir Steuart Edmund Pears, KCIE, CSI (1875 – 9 September 1931) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he spent most...
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the works written for Pears by Britten, as well as a wide range of music by other composers. Working with other musicians, Pears sang an extensive repertoire...
John Frankland 1943-1958 Jem Rice 1635-1650 John Kendall 1794-1844 SteuartPears 1958-1966 Timothy White 1650-1661 Henry Berners Shelley Harris 1844-1863...
former home of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The organisation was founded by Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Eric Crozier in 1947 as an organisation...
Greene and Peter Pears who joined the group in time for its tour that year in the United States and Canada. Haskell, p. 115. Pears, p. 1. "E.H. Fellowes...
he got to know Pears while they were both helping to clear out the country cottage of a mutual friend who had died in an air crash. Pears quickly became...
John Keen Preceded by William John Keen Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province August 1926 - 10 May 1930 Succeeded by Sir SteuartPears...
at the end of 1945, Britten and singers Joan Cross, Anne Wood, and Peter Pears joined with designer Piper and producer Crozier to found the English Opera...
1633); Epistolae ad J. Camerarium, Patrem et filium (Groningen, 1646). Pears, Steuart A., The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, subtitled...
role in the opera house, or on record, or both are Britten's partner Peter Pears, who sang the part at the premiere, and Allan Clayton, Ben Heppner, Anthony...
Festival, the joint Artistic Directors remained Britten, Pears and Crozier; in 1955, Britten and Pears were in sole charge, then the following year they were...
both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford...
Literature. Volume 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Pears, Steuart A., The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, subtitled...
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