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4 unusual facts about George Pereira


Emmer Green

Caversham Place was designed by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis for Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira, whose brother The Rev Edward Thomas Pereira was headmaster and benefactor of The Oratory School.

George Pereira

He was educated at the The Oratory School in Edgbaston, where his younger brother Edward Thomas Pereira ('E.P.') (1866–1939) was later principal and benefactor.

His journey from Yunnan along the Tibetan border in 1923 was his last, as he died of some internal trouble just before reaching Kantze (where he was buried), near Batang, Sichuan, in October 1923.

Osprey GP-5

The GP-5 Sweet Dreams is a Super Sport Class racing airplane designed by George Pereira and originally built by Gary Childs.



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