Stanley Pearce

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Stanley Pearce

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| country = England

| fullname = Stanley Herbert Hicks Pearce

| nickname =

| birth_date = 21 September 1863

| birth_place = Totton, Hampshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|4|5|1863|9|21|df=yes}}

| death_place = Oswestry, Shropshire, England

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| batting = Unknown

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| role =

| family =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = 1885

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 18

| bat avg1 = 9.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 18

| hidedeliveries = true

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 8 January

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/18477.html Cricinfo

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Stanley Herbert Hicks Pearce (21 September 1863 – 5 May 1929) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Henry Stanley Pearce, he was born at Totton in September 1863. He was educated at Winchester College,{{cite book |title=Winchester College, 1836–1906: A Register|last1=Dauglish|first1=M. G.|last2=Wainewright|first2=John Bannerman|publisher=P. and G. Wells.|location=Winchester|year=1907|page=353|url=https://archive.org/details/winchestercolleg00wincuoft|language=en}} before matriculating to Jesus College, Cambridge.{{cite book|last=Venn|first=John|title=Alumni Cantabrigienses|year=1944|volume=5|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=61|url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri05univuoft|language=en}} Pearce was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Dorsetshire Regiment in April 1885,Commissions. Army and Navy Gazette. 9 May 1885. p. 24 before resigning his commission in February 1886.{{London Gazette|issue=25561|date=23 February 1886|page=852}} Pearce made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Somerset at Taunton in 1885.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6795/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Stanley Pearce|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} Opening the batting twice in the match, he was dismissed in Hampshire's first innings for 18 runs by E. W. Bastard, while in their second innings he was dismissed without scoring by John Challen.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/2/2987.html|title=Hampshire v Somerset, 1885|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 November 2022|url-access=subscription}} Pearce died at Oswestry in May 1929 and was buried at Oswestry Cemetery.{{cite web|url=https://www.oswestrycemeteryproject.org.uk/results.html?tx_otccemeteryproject_pi1%5Bcmd%5D=profile&tx_otccemeteryproject_pi1%5Bview%5D=register&tx_otccemeteryproject_pi1%5Bprofile_id%5D=10713&tx_otccemeteryproject_pi1%5Bp%5D=103|title=Pearce, Stanley Herbert Hicks|publisher=www.oswestrycemeteryproject.org.uk|accessdate=13 November 2022}}