Early Life and Family
George Pereira was descended from an old Roman Catholic family of Portuguese origins (descended from Henry the Navigator), settled at Caversham Place, near Reading, which had profited in the 19th century from the Chinese trade. He was eldest of the three sons of Edward Pereira by the Hon. Margaret Anne Stonor, 8th daughter of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys of Stonor Park, Oxfordshire. He was educated at the The Oratory School in Edgbaston, where his younger brother Edward Thomas Pereira ('E.P.') (1866–1939) was later principal and benefactor. A third brother was Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira, KCB (1869–1942) a distinguished commander in the Boer War and the First World War.
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