Robert Pearsall (architect)

[2][3] He was born on 3 March 1852 at Oregon Terrace, Peckham Rye, Surrey (now London), the son of Henry Robert Pearsall,[4][5] and initially educated at the Islington Proprietary School.

[5] He was appointed architect in the Fire Brigade Office, Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW, later London County Council) in 1879, and was initially supervised by Alfred Mott.

The first of the cars manufactured was used to convey the newly wed Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his bride from St Petersburg to Flushing.

[18] Pearsall was also a life member of the British Museum,[5] and served on "The Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London".

[19] On 2 April 1878, he married Libbie Florence Dezill (1859–1899), the daughter of Charles Antoine Ferdinand Dezille who was born in 1829, in Calais, France.