Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet
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Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet (8 January 1833 – 18 December 1888)[1][2] was a British shipbuilder, under whose management the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde became the leading shipbuilding company in the world.[3] He was later a Conservative Party politician.
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