Lawrence Pearse

Lawrence Pearse Octochamp Statistics
Final position	Champion
Seeding	2
Points total	438
Conundrums solved	4

Lawrence Pearse

Lawrence Pearse was an octochamp in and the champion of Series 17, a semi-finalist in Championship of Champions V and a participant in the Supreme Championship.

A civil servant from Cheltenham, he made his debut on 22 February 1989, near the end of the series, where he beat Jim Saywell 53 – 34. Pearse won a further seven games to become an octochamp and #2 seed for the series behind the hotly-favoured Tim Morrissey. In the final rounds, Pearse beat Jean Tweddell and Vicki McCarthy on the way to the final against Evan Simpson. The final was a back-and-forth affair, with Simpson leading by 19 points after the first conundrum, but Pearse managed to stage a comeback, and with Simpson not scoring due to a series of messed-up numbers games and disallowed words, it was done and dusted by the conundrum — Pearse ran out the 80 – 64 winner and champion of series 17. His son Alex had also appeared in the same series, and they went on to play a Masters game against each other.

Pearse returned for Championship of Champions V, beating Michael Wareham in the first round before losing to Gino Corr in the semi-final, a game that is most remembered for the oft-repeated out-take where both contestants declared the word WANKERS [1].

Pearse returned one final time for the Supreme Championship in 1996, but was beaten by Jackie McLeod 47 – 45 in his first game.

Preceded by Tony Vick

Series winner Series 17

Followed by Rajaretnam Yogasagarar

Episodes

#	Date	Type	Contestant 1	Score	Contestant 2	Presenters				Guest	Lex	Max
850	22/02/1989	P	Jim Saywell	34 – 53	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	94
851	23/02/1989	P	Anne Ives	40 – 51	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	84
852	24/02/1989	P	Cathy Frank	49 – 57	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	94
853	27/02/1989	P	Fuad Shammas	48 – 49	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Tim Rice	Catherine Clarke	72
854	28/02/1989	P	Nadine Roebuck	36 – 48	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Ned Sherrin	Georgia Hole	73
855	1/03/1989	P	David Thompson	40 – 70	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Ned Sherrin	Georgia Hole	73
856	2/03/1989	P	Karen Hoggarth	23 – 58	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Ned Sherrin	Georgia Hole	71
857	3/03/1989	P	David Gledhill	12 – 52	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Ned Sherrin	Georgia Hole	72
862	10/03/1989	QF	Lawrence Pearse	52 – 29	Jean Tweddell	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Simon Williams	Georgia Hole	73
866	16/03/1989	SF	Vicki McCarthy	24 – 49	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Simon Williams	Georgia Hole	71
867	17/03/1989	GF	Evan Simpson	64 – 80	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman			Lucy Summers	Ned Sherrin, Frazer Hines	Freda Thornton	140
M35	27/11/1989-1/12/1989	M	Lawrence Pearse	75 – 77	John Clarke	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					none	Freda Thornton	138
1070	2/01/1991	CQF	Michael Wareham	38 – 54	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Catherine Clarke	71
1073	7/01/1991	CSF	Gino Corr	61 – 34	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Gyles Brandreth	Catherine Clarke	72
M96	Unreleased	M	Alex Pearse	80 – 77	Lawrence Pearse	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman					none		??
1876	7/11/1996	dQF	Lawrence Pearse	45 – 47	Jackie McLeod	Richard Whiteley	Carol Vorderman				Lucy Summers	Geoffrey Durham	Susie Dent	81