{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Allan Pearse | image = | country = England | fullname = Allan Arthur Pearse | height = | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|4|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Watchet, Somerset, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|6|14|1915|4|22|df=yes}} | death_place = Watchet, Somerset, England | batting = Right-handed | bowling = | role = Batsman | family = | club1 = Somerset | year1 = {{nowrap|1936–1938}} | type1 = First-class | debutdate1 = 6 June | debutyear1 = 1936 | debutfor1 = Somerset | debutagainst1 = Kent | lastdate1 = 19 August | lastyear1 = 1938 | lastfor1 = Somerset | lastagainst1 = Worcestershire | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 9 | runs1 = 81 | bat avg1 = 5.78 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 20 | deliveries1 = 12 | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 0/3 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 23 October | year = 2010 | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3754/3754.html CricketArchive }} '''Allan Arthur Pearse''' (22 April 1915 – 14 June 1981) played first-class cricket for Somerset in nine matches between 1936 and 1938.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3754/3754.html| title = Allan Pearse| publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-10-22}}</ref> He was born and died at Watchet, Somerset.
Pearse was a middle-order right-handed batsman whose club cricket was for Watchet Cricket Club, where Harold Gimblett was his contemporary. As a 16-year-old, playing for Watchet against Wellington Cricket Club, he joined Gimblett with the Watchet score at 37 for seven chasing a total of 160. The pair added the 123 runs needed, Gimblett scoring 91 and Pearse 33.<ref>{{Cite book | title = Harold Gimblett: Tormented Genius of Cricket | author = David Foot | edition = 1984 | publisher = Star (W. H. Allen) | isbn = 0-352-31426-5 | page = 53}}</ref> Pearse followed Gimblett into the Somerset side, making his debut in 1936 at the Agricultural Showgrounds, Frome, the same ground where Gimblett had made his sensational debut a year earlier. In his first innings he scored 20, which was the second highest of the Somerset innings against Kent.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/15/15806.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Kent | date = 1936-06-06 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-10-23}}</ref> But in five other first-class matches in the 1936 season he failed to score more than 10 in any innings, and in two matches in 1937 he also made little impression. His last first-class game in 1938 saw him batting at No 10 and failing to score in either innings.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/16/16789.html| title = Scorecard: Worcestershire v Somerset | date = 1938-08-17 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-10-23}}</ref>
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