A. W. H. Pearsall

Alan William Halliday Pearsall, usually cited AWH Pearsall, ( born November 14, 1925 in Leeds, † March 31, 2006 in London) was a British naval historian and railroad historian (especially railway ferries). He was from 1955 to 1985 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich ( London).

Pearsall was the son of the biologist William Pearsall ( Fellow of the Royal Society). He served from 1942 some time in the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and had to retire due to illness from. He studied at Cambridge University and started his PhD at King's College London at Gerald S. Graham (1903-1988), this stopped but. He went in 1955 on the recommendation of Graham at the National Maritime Museum, where he was curator of manuscripts and historian. In 1985, he went into retirement. He published relatively little and worked mainly through personal contact with many naval historians worldwide, conducted research at the National Maritime Museum. On his advice logbook in the 18th century for climate research were used.

He was on the Council of the Navy Records Society and the Vice President.

He was a member of the London Docklands History Group, the most vain strove to preserve historic buildings in the end.

Writings

  • The Second Dutch War: Engelse oorlog de ​​tweede 1665-1667, National Maritime Museum 1967
  • Naval Aspects of the Landings on the French Coast, 1758, in Nicholas Rodger (ed.) Naval Miscellany, volume 5 Publications of the Navy Records Society, 1985, p 207-243.
  • Published by John Hattendorf, RJB Knight, Nicholas Rodger, Geoffrey Till, Sainsbury British Naval Documents 1204-1960, Navy Records Society, Centenary volume ( Volume 131 ), 1993
  • He wrote or revised biographies of many (mostly lesser-known ) naval personnel in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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