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	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Richard Pearse : www.nzedge.com
		Richard William Pearse was born on 3 December 1877 at Waitohi Flat, Temuka, South Island, New Zealand, the fourth of nine children to Digory Pearse and Sarah Brown.
		After finishing school the young Pearse wanted to study engineering at Canterbury College, but the family could not afford it and instead, in 1898, when he turned 21, he was given the use of a nearby 100-acre farm block, which he was to farm intermittently for the next 13 years.
		Pearse was a prophetic designer and engineer who had absolutely no influence whatsoever on the course of history, yet he is immortalized for his inventiveness, ingenuity and achievement against the odds of ridicule, geography and resources.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/pearse.html (4028 words)

	Willie Pearse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		'William Pearse (better known as Willie Pearse; November 15, 1891 – May 4, 1916)(Irish name: Liam Mac Piarais} was an Irish nationalist and younger brother of Padraig Pearse.
		Willie was born in Dublin and throughout his life lived in the shadow of his brother to whom he was devoted and with whom he formed a particularly close relationship.
		In 1966, Dublin's Westland Row railway station was renamed Pearse Station to honour Willie and his brother.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Pearse (259 words)

	Richard Pearse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pearse started farming on 100 acres (400,000 m²) in 1898 at Waitohi in South Canterbury, but he never became a keen farmer, having much more interest in engineering.
		Pearse himself made contradictory statements which for many years led the few knew of his feats to accept 1904 as the date of flying.
		Pearse moved to Milton in Otago in about 1911 and discontinued his flying experiments due to the hillier country there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Pearse (1328 words)

	Richard Pearse
		Pearse started farming on 100 acres in 1898 at Waitohi in South Canterbury, New Zealand, but he was never a keen farmer, being far more interested in engineering.
		Pearse himself made contradictory statements which for many years led to 1904 being the accepted date among the few who were aware of his feats.
		Pearse was committed to Sunnyside Mental Hospital in Christchurch in 1951, and died there two years later.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Richard_Pearse.html (923 words)

	William Pierce - Marriages - Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Pearce, William and Lusinda Bointon, Sept. 10, 1789.
		Peirce, William, Capt., of Hinsdale, and _____ Annibal, wid., Aug. 20, 1807.
		Peirce, William and Cassindania Hosmer of Boxborough, Sept. 1, 1811.
	members.aol.com /Pierce476/MWilliam.html (1137 words)

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		Pearse graduated from the Royal University of Ireland where he studied to be an attorney, but he never practiced.
		Pearse wrote poetry in Irish and English, however most of his work was not published until after his death.
		As Pearse walked to where he would meet his death, he was given a ten-inch crucifix of brass to carry with him, by Father Aloysius who was attending the men.
	members.tripod.com /~ipr_home/easterrising.htm (1160 words)

	Richard Pearse's Early Flying Machine - information -
		Pearse is recognised as the first man in New Zealand to lift off from the ground flying his home built powered aircraft.
		Whether or not Pearse flew in any acceptable sense, and regardless of the exact date, his first aircraft was a remarkable invention embodying several far-sighted concepts: a monoplane configuration, wing flaps and rear elevator, tricycle undercarriage with steerable nosewheel, and a propeller with variable-pitch blades driven by a unique double-acting horizontally opposed petrol engine.
		Pearse in a letter to the press mentions the year 1904 when he began studies to achieve aerial navigation, and that true aerial navigation was not achieved until 1905.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Pearse-FlyingMachine/info/info.htm (1696 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Richard William Pearse was born on 3 December 1877 at Waitohi Flat, Temuka, New Zealand, the fourth of nine children of Sarah Ann Brown and her husband, Digory Sargent Pearse, a farmer.
		Pearse hoped this extraordinary aircraft would become aviation's Model T Ford, 'the private plane for the million', able to be flown from one's backyard.
		Pearse should be remembered as an inventor of extraordinary imagination and foresight whose vision far outreached the capacity of his simple workshop technology.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=3P19&QuickSearch=true (883 words)

	Famous New Zealanders - Richard William Pearse - Kids - Christchurch City Libraries
		Richard Pearse’s first invention to receive a patent was a type of bicycle, where the pedals were pushed up and down, rather than around, and the tyres could be pumped up while still riding.
		Pearse applied to patent his aircraft design in 1906 and continued his attempts to fly.
		Pearse was admitted to Sunnyside Mental Hospital in Christchurch in June 1951.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /kids/famousnewzealanders/richard.asp (1081 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Richard William Pearse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Pearse also was on record stating that he did not fly in his first aerial machine.
		The propeller depicted on reconstructions of Pearse's machine as well as the propeller which seems to have been used on his machine were not up to the task of moving a sufficient volume of air to have generated much, if any, thrust.
		In evaluating the claims made on Pearse's behalf by others, it must be remembered that Richard Pearse never sought the title of being "first to fly." Indeed, to be remembered as someone who early on designed and built a flying machine and its engine, which he most certainly did, is honor enough.
	www.flyingmachines.org /pears.html (386 words)

	William Pearse
		William Pearse was born on 15 November 1881 in Dublin, the third son of his Father's second marriage.
		William Pearse was tried by Field General Courts Martial on 3 May 1916.
		William Pearse was the only person tried for his part in the Easter Uprising who pleaded guilty.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /william_pearse.htm (763 words)

	macrua: This day in history...
		William was trained to take over his father's stonemason business, but gave it up to help Patrick run St. Enda's School which he founded in 1908.
		William never achieved a rank of significance in none of the organisations, nor was he member of the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).
		Probably because of his plead and of course his relation with Pádraic William Pearse was sentenced to death.
	macrua.livejournal.com /13115.html (1086 words)

	Richard Pearse, First Powered Flight - Temuka New Zealand
		Richard William Pearse spent much of his lifetime building light, powerful aero-engines and constructing aircraft for his numerous attempts at powered flight.
		The motor car did not appear in his locality until some years after Pearse had built and run his petrol engine; his design was based on the steam engines and early oil engines in use in the district, supplemented by information gathered from engineering books...
		However, there is no doubt that Pearse's definition of flying was far more rigorous than that of the Wright Brothers, and that flights he made prior to the Wright's attempts were never classified by himself as, "actually flying".
	www.nz-holiday.co.nz /temuka/pearse.asp (351 words)

	Pearse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Pearse began his life-long study of the Irish language at age eleven; perhaps his strident nationalism was a by product of his study of the language which the British had tried so hard to destroy over the centuries.
		Through these years Pearse was writing a great deal of prose and poetry, some in Irish and some in English, much of which was published after his death, and contributing articles to Arthur Griffith's The United Irishman.
		Pearse surrendered and sent an order to other outposts that were still holding out to surrender also.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /wildpony/Pearse.htm (2370 words)

	Easter Rising - TheWildGeese.com
		Pearse began his life-long study of the Irish language at age 11; perhaps his strident nationalism was a byproduct of his study of the language that the British had tried so hard to destroy over the centuries.
		Pearse watched the city he loved blazing around him and the people of that city being killed, some before his eyes.
		Willie's capitol offense was being the brother of Patrick Pearse.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/pearse.html (3515 words)

	Richard Pearse
		For the best part of a century, the activities of Richard William Pearse (1877-1953) were largely unknown outside the small, close-knit, farming settlement of Waitohi, in the South Island of New Zealand, where he was born and where he flew his aircraft in the very early part of the 20'th century.
		Pearse must be the first and the only aviator who had at that time designed his own unique internal combustion engine; and designed his own aircraft (pre-dating the microlight by about seventy years).
		Pearse in a letter to the press mentions the year 1904 when he began studies to achieve aerial navigation, and that true aerial navigation was not achieved until 1905.
	www.chrisbrady.itgo.com /pearse/pearse.htm (1693 words)

	Pearse Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: PEARSE of Linkinhorne, Cornwall - Sylvia Eldridge 11/19/05
		Re: PEARSE of Linkinhorne, Cornwall - jrivinius 3/17/01
		Re: PEARSE of Linkinhorne, Cornwall - Sylvia Eldridge 11/26/05
	www.genforum.genealogy.com /pearse (1507 words)

	Families beginning N_R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		William H. Bidgood, William Elston's nephew, was born in Templeton.
		William Palmer was a baker in Templeton in 1871, living in 'Temple village' which, from the route taken by the enumerator, must refer to the settlement around or near the mill, elsewhere called 'Mill Village or Temple Mill', and not to the village round the church, known as 'Temple Town'.
		William Rowe (1815) 36 in 1851 born in Templeton, was an ag.lab and Dairyman.
	www.lupton2.freeserve.co.uk /templeton/families_n-r.htm (4890 words)

	Bill Sherwood's tribute to Richard Pearse
		Pearse is not generally known outside New Zealand for this wonderful feat, as there has been very little publicity about it, the first real mention of his achievement being in the newspaper in 1909.
		Pearse also built the engine, which was estimated at about 15 - 22hp, but hampered by a much cruder propellor than the Wright's machine.
		Richard William Pearse was born in 1877, and died in a hospital in 1953.
	www.billzilla.org /pearce.htm (972 words)

	Patrick Pearse:A Man by Rose Tempany Pearse
		Pearse depended largely on the donations of friends and on fund-raising events.
		Pearse was a man born to be a father, though, without every having, to paraphrase one of his biographers, 'even a mundane love affair in his life', he was destined never to have children of his own.
		Pearse's influence over the school, his dynamism, his love for his 'fosterlings' as he called the boys, could not be re-captured afterwards.
	website.lineone.net /~pearsebaby (2491 words)

	Famous New Zealanders - Richard William Pearse - Kids - Christchurch City Libraries
		Richard Pearse’s first invention to receive a patent was a type of bicycle, where the pedals were pushed up and down, rather than around, and the tyres could be pumped up while still riding.
		Pearse applied to patent his aircraft design in 1906 and continued his attempts to fly.
		Pearse was admitted to Sunnyside Mental Hospital in Christchurch in June 1951.
	www.library.christchurch.org.nz /Kids/FamousNewZealanders/Richard.asp (1081 words)

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		This aircraft, of prophetic design, was powered by an ingenious petrol engine which he also designed and constructured.
		It was not until 17 December 1903 that the Wright Brothers' Flier I took to the air at the Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina.
		Though Pearse himself later conceded that the Americans deserved the honour of being the first to make a controlled and sustained flight, it is almost certain that he got into the air under power before they did.”
	www.nzine.co.nz /pearse.html (228 words)

	Richard Pearse in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		He is reputed to have flown a powered heavier than air machine on 31 March 1903, some nine months before the Wright Brothers did, but the documentary evidence to support such a claim is open to interpretation.
		Components of his engine, including cylinders made from cast-iron drainpipes were recovered from rubbish dumps at Upper Waitohi 60 years later.
		During filming of a television documentary in the 1970s, a replica of Pearse's 1902 machine was attached by a rope to a team of horses.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Richard_Pearse.html (958 words)

	Wing Family of America, Inc. - Person Page 940
		She was the daughter of William Pearse and Elizabeth Gifford.
		William H. Pearse was born on 15 June 1813 at 37 1850, Rhode Island.
		William Pearson (M) William Pearson married Gulielma Keese, daughter of Titus Keese and Martha Mitchner, on 1 January 1858 at Bangor, Iowa.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~wingfamilyofamerica/p940.htm (1247 words)

	Bamboo Dick, first in flight - Salon
		The prize was clunky -- a dilapidated bronze plane in a glass case with the words "Richard Pearse Memorial Trophey for Aviation Excellence" inscribed in gold.
		Richard Pearse, Dad explained on the drive home, was the first man in the world to fly.
		Pearse fans are well aware that the rest of the world believes it was the Wright brothers who flew first.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/2002/08/22/richard_pearse/print.html (726 words)

	Easter Monday 1916
		Pearse began his life-long study of the Irish language at age 11; perhaps his strident nationalism was a byproduct of his study of the language that the British had tried so hard to destroy over the centuries.
		The school operated until 1935, run eventually by Pearse’s mother and sister, but none of the four founders of the school would see that day — all four would be executed within five days of each other in May 1916.
		His spirit would have sunk though, had he known that his brother William, who was not one of the leaders of the rising, was also condemned to death.
	www.theirishgazette.com /Pages/5_2006_Easter.html (2227 words)

	draic Pearse: Literary Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Between 1906 and 1915, Pearse also wrote two collections of short stories, most of which were published in An Claidheamh Soluis prior to being collected into the two volumes,
		In which case, it is unique in being a biography of events which had not at the time, taken place.
		So Now You Have an understanding of Pádraic Pearse the Literary Man. But that is just one aspect of his life.
	www.pearsecom.com /padraicpearse/literary.htm (624 words)

	Richard Pearse
		For the best part of a century, the activities of Richard William Pearse (1877-1953) were largely unknown outside the small, close-knit, farming settlement of Waitohi, in the South Island of New Zealand, where he was born and where he flew his aircraft in the very early part of the 20'th century.
		The remains of Pearse's pioneering aircraft, engines, and the 'working' replica of his first aircraft, together with his unique motorbike, may be seen at MOTAT, the Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand.
		Preston Watson - the first "Flying Scot" who is thought to have made short flights over the fields near Errol on the river Tay in the years 1903-4.
	chrisbrady.itgo.com /pearse/pearse.htm (1693 words)

	A Day and A Night
		PEARSE goes to his quarters at St. Enda's and unpacks a suitcase.
		PEARSE is off to one side putting the finishing touches to his uniform.
		Pearse," he complained, "the boy takes no interest in mathematics, or history, or athletics, he just wants to play the tin whistle.
	celticfringe.net /plays/day.htm (12295 words)

	Richard Pearse's Early Flying Machine - information - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It was not until 17 December 1903 that the Wright Brothers' took to the air at the Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina.
		Though Pearse later conceded that the Americans deserved the honor of being the first to make a controlled and sustained flight, there seems to be a very good chance that Bamboo Dick Pearce got into the air under power before they did.
		The Pearse story has been very solidly debunkedrepeatedly; most recently in an article in WWI Aero last year.If your really interested in aviation history, let me know andI'll look up the reference for you and if you don't have accessto WWI Aero I'll copy the article and smail it to you.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /index.php?pg=878 (255 words)

	William Mark Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
		William Theophilus Brown, Beth and Mark, Drawing, number 10 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown, 1984
		William Theophilus Brown, Mark and Gordon, Drawing, number 13 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown, 1984
		William Theophilus Brown, Beth, Gordon, and Mark, Drawing seated Man, number 14 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown, 1984
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/m/mark-william.html (698 words)

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