Richard Pearce

Richard Pearce (1843-1898)

Railway Achievements

1861, engaged as a Clerk in the East Indian Railway(EIR) Locomotive Department, Howrah
1866, transferred to the Carriage and Wagon Workshops at Howrah.
1869, Assistant Carriage & Wagon Superintendent, Howrah assistant to his brother Robert Webb Pearce
1889, Carriage & Wagon Superintendent, Howrah on death of Robert Webb Pearce^[1]
1892, Indian Railway Conference Association, Lahore. 'Locomotive Superintendents Conference' delegate representing East Indian Railway(EIR) ^[2].
1898, death in England on leave; suceeded by Tomyns Reginald Browne

Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London - Obituary dated 1898 ^[3].

Richard Pearce was born in Birmingham in 1843, and was educated at King Edward's Grammar School in that city.
After serving his time 1850-60 in the railway carriage and wagon works of Messrs. Brown Marshalls and Co. at Saltley, he was sent out to India in 1861 to assist his elder brother Mr. Robert Webb Pearce in the carriage and wagon department of the East Indian Railway at Howrah, Calcutta.
In 1867 he was appointed assistant carriage superintendent; and on his brother's death in 1889 he succeeded him as carriage and wagon superintendent of the railway.
On account of failing eye-sight resulting from kidney disease he was invalided home in 1898; and whilst on a visit to his younger sons in Glasgow he died from apoplexy on 5th August 1898 at the age of fifty-five.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1873.