Brigadier General George Edward Pereira, CB, CMG, DSO (26 January 1865 – 20 October 1923) was a British Army officer, writer, diplomatist, and explorer in Central Asia, Tibet and Western China.
George Pereira was descended from an old Roman Catholic family of Portuguese origins, which had profited in the 19th century from the Chinese trade, notably in Macao.
[5] In April 1902 he was in charge of bringing to South Africa a reinforcement of 500 officers and men of the Grenadier Guards for the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the regiment, serving there during the Second Boer War.
He was the first European to walk from Peking to Lhasa, when he described the Amne Machin massif in eastern Tibet in 1921–2, sometimes reckoned among the great geographical discoveries of the twentieth century.
His journey from Yunnan along the Tibetan border in 1923 was his last, as he died of some internal trouble just before reaching Kantze (where he was buried), near Batang, Sichuan, in October 1923.