Frederick Gordon Pearcey
1856/7–1927
Naval rating, zoologist, and taxidermist. Domestic third class RN and assistant to the naturalists on HMS Challenger, 1872–6; assisted with the reports of the expedition.
Sources
BMD (Death index)
Census returns of England and Wales 1891 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG12/3201/18/29)
Nature, 12 February 1927, p. 245
Glenn M. Stein, 2007, ‘The Challenger medal roll (1895)’, www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/Chall-Medal/ChallengerMedal.html (accessed 20 October 2015)
Bibliography
BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.
