Edwin Pears

Sir Edwin Pears (1835–1919) was an English lawyer and historian who spent most of his life in Constantinople, where he practiced law from 1873 and became president of the European bar. As a correspondent for the Daily News, he helped expose the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876. He wrote two histories of the fall of Byzantium, The Fall of Constantinople, on the Fourth Crusade, and The Destruction of the Greek Empire, on the Ottoman conquest of 1453, as well as a life of Abdul Hamid and his memoirs, Forty Years in Constantinople. He died in Malta in 1919.