PIERCE, CHARLES FREDERICK (1877-1936) was born at Bootle, Lancashire, the son of T. D. Pierce, and educated in Liverpool and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. Having been ordained deacon (1906) and priest (1907), he was an assistant master at Cranbrook School, Kent (1906-08), at Giggleswick (1908-14), and Haileybury College (1915) and headmaster at Cranbrook (1915). From there he was appointed in 1922 headmaster of Wanganui College, a post which he relinquished on account of ill health in 1931. Pierce was chairman of the Cranbrook parish council (1919-22). He served in the war of 1914-18 as a chaplain with the British forces (1914-17). He died on 21 Jul 1936.

Crockford, 1930; Who's Who N.Z., 1924, 1932; Wanganui Chronicle, 21 Jul 1936.

Reference: Volume 2, page 86

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