Cecil Pearse died at the age of 74 on 29th June, 1948, after suffering for over a year with a strained heart.
He was surveying in Devonshire and Cornwall from 1893 to 1895, in which year he entered the Camborne School of Mines. In 1897 he went to Malaya as Inspector of Mines, Perak, and in 1901 was appointed Warden of Mines. He resigned from Government service in November, 1902, and went into partnership with Mr. H.F. Nutter under the style of Nutter and Pearse, mining engineers, at Ipoh, Perak. In 1903 the firm was appointed to manage the Tambun tin mine and later Rahman Hydraulic Tin, Ltd. Owing to amalgamations the title of the firm was changed in 1917 to Aylesbury and Nutter. Mr. Pearse was chairman of the firm from 1920 to 1928, and during the last four years of this period he took over on his own account all the mining activities of the firm.
He left Malaya in 1928 and during the next two years was prospecting and reporting in Cornwall for the Siamese Tin Syndicate, Ltd. He went to Spain in 1934 for Lumbrales Mining and Power Co., Ltd., and in 1936 visited Malaya as consultant to Slim Concessions, Ltd., and Malayan Tin Dredging, Ltd., making another visit in 1938 for the same companies and for Kramat Pulai, Ltd.
Mr. Pearse retired from professional work in 1938. He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M., 1949-50, p.?
