Steuart Pears
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]
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- 1875 births
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- Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
- Companions of the Order of the Star of India
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
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- Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
- Indian Political Service officers
- Accidental deaths from falls in India