Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears, KBE, CB (25 April 1862 – 21 June 1941) was a British Royal Navy officer, who served in the First World War.
Pears joined the Royal Navy, where he was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June 1885.
[2] He was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Perseus in early 1901, when the ship was commissioned to form part of the East Indies fleet.
[3] He was in charge when in September 1901 she prevented the landing of Turkish troops at Kuwait.
[4] The following year he was in charge when troops from the Perseus demolished the fort at Balhaf in response to pirate activities by the locals there.