Lieutenant General Peter Thomas Clayton Pearson, CB, CBE (born 1954) is a former British Army officer who served as Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 2006 to 2007.
He returned to the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1979 and served as an Intelligence Officer during a tour of Brunei.
[4] Pearson was promoted to captain on 8 May 1982,[6] to major on 30 September 1986—becoming Chief of Staff to the 20th Armoured Brigade on leaving Staff College[7]—and to lieutenant colonel on 30 June 1991, taking up the appointment of Military Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, United Kingdom Land Forces.
[4] He was appointed to the honorary position of Colonel of The Royal Gurkha Rifles on 1 July 1999, succeeding Lieutenant General Sir Peter Duffell,[11] and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 3 November 2000 "in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the former Yugoslavia and Albania during the period 1st October 1999 to 31st March 2000".
[12] Pearson went on to be Assistant Chief of Staff, Training in May 2000, Chief of Staff Field Army in September 2001 and, on promotion to major general in July 2002, became Deputy Commander for Operations in Bosnia before becoming Commander of British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in September 2003.