_Grove’s Dict. of music ii_ 678 (1880).
PEARSALL, THOMAS J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). _b._ at
the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London
10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution,
London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the
Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution,
Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on
Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals
from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association