Edwin Pears

Sir Edwin Pears (18 March 1835 – 27 November 1919) was a British barrister, author and historian.

He was educated privately and at the University of London where he took first-class honours in Roman law and jurisprudence.

In 1876, as correspondent of The Daily News, he sent letters home describing Ottoman atrocities and the April Uprising in Bulgaria.

[7][8][9] The letters aroused popular demonstrations in England led by William Ewart Gladstone.

[6][10][11] At the time, the reports of these atrocities were generally disbelieved and Pears' letters placed all the incontrovertible facts before the English people.

Sir Edwin Pears and Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (29 June 1909)