Howard John Stredder Pearce, CVO (born 13 April 1949, in Twickenham) is an English diplomat who served as the Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) until July 2006.
He married Caroline Thomée, a Dutch architect and photographer in October 2004.
A bell was also rung at a church in Grytviken on South Georgia.
At the end of July 2006, Pearce left the Falklands and was succeeded as Falkland Islands Governor and Commissioner for SGSSI by Alan Huckle, previously governor of Anguilla, another British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
Upon leaving the Falklands, he semi-retired and moved to Dundee, Scotland.