Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lyons Otway Pearson CB ADC JP (1831–30 May 1890) was Assistant Commissioner (Executive) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1881 to 1890.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lyons Pearson CB ADC JP
Born	1831
Died	18 May 1890(1890-05-18) (aged 58–59)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Grenadier Guards
Rank	Lieutenant-Colonel (British Army)
Battles/wars	Crimean War
Relations	Henry Shepherd Pearson, Governor of Penang (father) Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons (uncle) John Lyons of Antigua (grandfather) Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons (cousin) Sir Algernon Lyons, Admiral of the Fleet (cousin)

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Pearson was the son of Henry Shepherd Pearson and Caroline Lyons, daughter of John Lyons of Antigua and sister of Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons.

He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. During the Crimean War (1854–1855), he served as aide-de-camp to General Sir George Brown, and was present at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol.

In 1856, Pearson married Laura Elizabeth Frederica Markham. They had two sons: Charles Lyons Markham Pearson and Richard Frederick Sydney Pearson.

Pearson retired from the army in 1864 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1881 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. In June 1887, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). He was also a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex.

He died after a prolonged illness while still serving in the Metropolitan Police.

• Lyons family

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• Atkinson, George (1801). The Worthies of Westmorland. p. 269.