title: Francis Barrow Pearce
text: # Francis Barrow Pearce
  
  Francis Barrow Pearce CMG (16 September 1866 – 11 June 1926) was a British imperial administrator and author.
  
  He was acting Commissioner of Nyasaland (now Malawi) from 1 April 1907 to September 1907 and acting Governor of Nyasaland from 1 April 1910 to 4 July 1910. In 1914, he became British Resident in Zanzibar, working alongside the protectorate's High Commissioner Henry Conway Belfield.
  
  In 1920, his Zanzibar: the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa was published in Great Britain by T. F. Unwin.
  
  