{{short description|English cricketer, priest, and schoolmaster}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Use British English|date=March 2016}}
The Revd '''Edward Thomas Pereira''' (26 September 1866 – 25 February 1939) was an English Catholic priest and schoolmaster, who played first-class cricket between 1895 and 1900 for Warwickshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).<ref name="ca">{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32018/32018.html| title = Edward Pereira| publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 30 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228187.html |title=Obituaries in 1939 |work=Wisden |accessdate=24 April 2019}}</ref>
==Life== Born at Colwich, Staffordshire, to Eduardo Pereira (1817–1872) and the Hon. Margaret Stonor (1839–1894),<ref>[https://www.burkespeerage.com/ www.burkespeerage.com]</ref> he attended the Oratory School at Edgbaston. Influenced by Cardinal Newman, Pereira then became a Roman Catholic priest and schoolmaster.<ref name="timesobit">{{cite news| title = Obituaries: The Rev. E. Pereira | newspaper = The Times |issue = 48240 | page = 14 | location = London | date = 27 February 1939}}</ref> By 1910, Pereira was headmaster of the Oratory School and was in charge at the time of its move from Birmingham to Caversham, near Reading, where his family had owned property. He retired from the headmastership in 1930, being named as Warden in 1934, but was forced by ill health to retire to Birmingham Oratory in 1935<ref name="timesobit"/> and died at Edgbaston, Warwickshire in 1939. right|150px As a cricketer, Pereira was a right-handed middle order batsman; he also bowled right-arm fast, but only bowled two overs in first-class cricket.<ref name="ca"/> He played five times for Warwickshire in 1895 and 1896 and his best batting came in his first match, the game against Kent, when he top-scored with 34 in Warwickshire's first innings and made 24, just one behind Willie Quaife's 25, in the second.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/4/4414.html| title = Scorecard: Kent v Warwickshire | date = 5 August 1895 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 November 2015}}</ref> Against the 1896 Australians, Pereira was praised for his fielding, being rated as the finest fielder at point that the Australians had encountered.<ref name="timesobit"/> He played two games for MCC in 1900: in the first of these, he captained a team including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle against a London County side captained by Dr W. G. Grace.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/5/5572.html| title = Scorecard: London County v Marylebone Cricket Club | date = 23 August 1900 | publisher = www.cricketarchive.com | accessdate = 1 November 2015}}</ref>
His elder brother was George Pereira, the soldier and explorer, and his younger brother was Sir Cecil Pereira, also a distinguished soldier; both brothers were promoted generals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.william1.co.uk/bl24.htm|title=Blois 24|publisher=Conqueror 100|accessdate=2 November 2015}}</ref>
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