PICKAVER, RALPH; b. ; adm. ; KS Jan 1609/10 (Chapter Lease Book 1605-10, f. 261).
PICKERING, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1626 (Chapter Muniments 33256).
Pickering, Cuthbert Edward, son of the Rev. Arthur Milner Pickering, Rector of Woolwich, Kent, by Louisa, daughter of Charles Darbyshire Mills, of Newton Grange, Yorks; b. Nov. 21, 1903; adm. Jan. 17, 1918 (H); left Dec. 1921; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1922; B.A. 1925; M.A. 1929; M.R.S.T.; asst. master at the King's School, Gloucester, Sept. 1925; student at Bishops Coll. Cheshunt 1931-2; asst. master at Warriston Moffat 1933-6; Harrow View House, Ealing, 1936-9; Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, 1939-41; Bedford School 1941; m. Oct. 7, 1939, Joan Guyon, only daughter of R. F. Guyon-Smith, of Ealing, Middx.; d. 23 Dec. 1986.
Pickering, John Alexander, son of Alexander Henry Pickering of Bromley, Kent, and Annie, d. of Thomas Willis; b. 27 Apr. 1905; adm. May 1919 (A); left July 1921; chairman and man. dir. Alexander Pickering & Co., mercury suppliers, refiners and distillers, Slough, Berks; m. 14 June 1930 Doris Mabel, d. of William Harold Jeffery of Sanderstead, Surrey; d. 17 Dec. 1988.
Pickering, John Bryce, son of James Arthur Newton Pickering and Aimée Barnett; b. 14 May 1906; adm. Apr. 1920 (A); left Dec. 1922; dir. Guthrie & Co., East India merchants, Singapore; m. 4 Mar. 1941 Jessie Gwendolyn, d. of Oswald Phillips Griffith-Jones of Singapore; d. 6 Mar. 1984.
PICKERING, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1743 (Ludford's); left 1747.
PICKERING, ROGER, son of Thomas Pickering, London, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 18 Jul 1718 (IGI, sic); adm. (aged 10) Jun 1730; KS 1732; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1737, adm. pens. 9 Jun 1737, but did not matr.; ordained; became a dissenting minister; [perhaps FRS 1744]; m.; d. 18 May 1755.
Pickering, William Francis Middleton, son of William Todd Pickering, of Kensington; b. May 9, 1901; adm. Sept. 23, 1915 (R); left Dec. 1918.
PIERPOINT, HENRY BAILEY; b. 2 Feb 1837; adm. 22 Jun 1848 (Rigaud's); went into merchant navy.
Pierson, Peter Douglas Humphrey, son of George H. Pierson, manufacturing chemist, and Helena Marion, d. of William Edward Jones of Eastnor, Herefordshire; b. 12 July 1919; adm. May 1933 (H); left July 1936; enlisted Gunner HAC, transf. RHA 1940 (L/Bdr), p.o.w. Greece 1941; d. as prisoner in Germany 18 Oct. 1942.
Peter Douglas Humphrey Pierson was born at St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire on the 12th of July 1919 the son of George Humphrey Pierson, a manufacturing chemist, and Helena Marion (nee Jones) Pierson of 94, Queensway, Bayswater, London W2.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from May 1933 to July 1936.
He enlisted as a Gunner in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1939 where he served with D Battery. He transferred to the 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery in 1940. He was posted to Egypt and later to Greece.
He was captured at the fall of Greece on the 28th of April 1941 and was taken to Germany where he was interned at Stalag XVIIIA at Wolfsburg from the 24th of September 1941 as POW No. 1208. On his arrival there it was recorded that he was six feet four inches tall and that he had brown hair.
He was admitted to the hospital at Wolfsberg on the 18th of October 1942 suffering from typhus. He died there the following day.
He was buried at Wolfsberg Cemetery II, Grave 24 on the 21st of October 1942 but his body was later exhumed and moved to its present location.
He is buried at Klagenfurt War Cemetery Plot 6, Row A, Grave 4.