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|name= General Sir Alfred Astley Pearson<br />
|birth_date=5 June 1850<ref name="burkegreatwar">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition=76th |year= 1914 |page= 2470 |ref=Burke }}</ref><br />
|death_date={{dda|26 November 1937|5 June 1850|df=y}}<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page=xx |ref=Burke }}</ref><br />
|birth_place=[[Calcutta]], British India<br />
|death_place=Middlesex, England<br />
|image=Gen Sir Alfred Pearson Colonel of 1-10 Baluch 1.jpg<br />
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|allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom<br />
|branch={{army|British India|23px}}<br />
|serviceyears=<br />
|rank=[[General (United Kingdom)|General]]<br />
|commands=24th (Baluchistan) Regiment of Bombay Infantry 1894–1902<br/>[[4th (Quetta) Division]] 1905-6<br/>[[3rd (Lahore) Division]] 1908–12<br />
|awards=[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar]]<br />
}}<br />
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Alfred Astley Pearson''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCB}} (5 June 1850 – 26 November 1937) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Pearson was commissioned a [[second lieutenant]] on 8 February 1870, promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 28 October 1871, to [[Captain (BARM)|captain]] on 8 February 1882, and to [[Major (British Army and Royal Marines)|major]] on 1 July 1887.<ref name=Hart>Hart′s Army list, 1903</ref> He commanded the 24th (Baluchistan) Regiment of Bombay Infantry (later [[124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry]]) and 1st Battalion [[10th Baluch Regiment]] (later 6th Battalion The [[Baloch Regiment]]) from 1894 to 1902. Promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant-colonel]] on 8 February 1896, he led his battalion that year to [[British East Africa]] to suppress a rebellion in areas now forming [[Kenya]].<ref name="Chaldecott 1935">Chaldecott, Lt Col OA. (1935). ''The First Battalion (DCO) and the Tenth Battalion, the Tenth Baluch Regiment''. Aldershot: Gale & Polden. pp. 14–7 & 186.</ref> He was promote to [[Colonel (British Army)|colonel]] on 8 February 1900, and appointed as temporary [[assistant adjutant-general]] (probably in [[Poona]], in the [[Bombay Army|Bombay Command]]) on 7 July 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27469 |date=29 August 1902 |page=5610}}</ref> In 1902 he officiated as Colonel on the Staff in [[Cawnpore]].<ref name=Hart /><br />
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[[File:24th Baluchistan Infantry, 1896 Colonel Alfred Pearson commanding.jpg|thumb|left|24th (Baluchistan) (Duchess of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry. Lieutenant Colonel Alfred A Pearson (centre) commanding. Quetta, 1896.]]<br />
In 1904, he officiated as the Adjutant General of [[Indian Army]]. He commanded the [[4th (Quetta) Division]] in 1905–6; was Inspector-General of Volunteers in India, 1906–8; and in command of the [[3rd (Lahore) Division]], Northern Army, 1908–12.<ref>Walford, Edward (1919). ''Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'', vol 59. p. 282.[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/edward-walford/the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla/page-282-the-county-families-of-the-united-kingdom-or-royal-manual-of-the-titled-and-un-fla.shtml]</ref> He was made [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] in the [[1911 Coronation Honours]].<ref>''The Edinburgh Gazette'', 23 June 1911. p. 627. Retrieved 7 November 2010.</ref> Sir Alfred was the Colonel of 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry.<ref name="Chaldecott 1935"/><br />
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