Edward Charles Pearce served on the Shanghai Municipal Council, he was granted the Freedom of Shanghai and settled down in London.
Sir Edward Charles Pearce was the Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council for 7 years, serving throughout World War I. For this service the Shanghai Ratepayers Meeting unanimously resolved that he be granted the Freedom of Shanghai, a unique distinction. He left Shanghai in 1922 and returned to England where he settled down near London in Little Portnall, Wentworth, Virginia Water. 
