Alan William Halliday Pearsall

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Alan William Halliday Pearsall , mostly quoted AWH Pearsall, (born November 14, 1925 in Leeds , † March 31, 2006 in London ) was a British naval historian and railway historian (especially railway ferries). From 1955 to 1985 he was at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich (London) .

Pearsall was the son of the biologist William Pearsall (Fellow of the Royal Society). From 1942 he served for some time in the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and then retired due to illness. He studied at Cambridge University and began his doctorate at King's College London with Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), but broke it off. He went to the National Maritime Museum in 1955 on the recommendation of Graham, where he was curator of manuscripts and historians. In 1985 he retired. He published relatively little and worked mainly through personal contact with many naval historians worldwide who did research at the National Maritime Museum. On his advice, log entries from the 18th century were used for climate research.

He was on the council of the Navy Records Society and its vice-president.

He was a member of the London Docklands History Group, which ended up trying to preserve historical buildings, mostly in vain.

Fonts

  • The Second Dutch War: de tweede Engelse oorlog 1665-1667 , National Maritime Museum 1967
  • Naval Aspects of the Landings on the French Coast, 1758 , in Nicholas Rodger (Ed.) Naval Miscellany, volume 5 Publications of the Navy Records Society , 1985, pp. 207-243.
  • Editor with John Hattendorf , RJB Knight , Nicholas Rodger , Geoffrey Till , Sainsbury British Naval Documents 1204-1960 , Navy Records Society, Centenary Volume (Volume 131), 1993
  • he wrote or revised many biographies of (mostly lesser known) members of the Navy in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1962 his monograph on ferries across the North Channel ( North Irish Channel Service ) appeared. He was also an expert on historic industrial buildings and naval fortresses
personal data
SURNAME Pearsall, Alan William Halliday
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British naval historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2006
Place of death London