Steuart Pears

Sir Steuart Edmund Pears, KCIE, CSI was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian [Civil Service], he spent most of his career in the Indian [Political Service|Political Department of the Government of India].
He was British Resident in Mysore from 1925 to 1930 and List of chief commissioners of the [North-West Frontier Province|Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province] from 1930 until death the following year.
On 9 September 1931, Pears died after falling off a cliff in Nathia Gali, the summer headquarters of the government.