_Law Times xxxvii_ 577, 590 (1862).
PEARSON, CHARLES BUCHANAN (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson
1767–1856). _b._ Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832
to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct.
1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853;
contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays
for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862;
Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations
1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. _d._ 2
Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.
PEARSON, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson
1787–1865). _b._ 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept.
1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter
coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union
debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on
English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor
of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863;
lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a
sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history
at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’
Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education
in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member
for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for
the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry
administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education
18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the
system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent
secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to
death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent
traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861;
History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols.
1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen
centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873;
National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H.
Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii
Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 6 Dec. 1872 Edith
Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she
was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he _d._
at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 June. _Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894
p._ 4 _portrait_.
PEARSON, SIR EDWIN (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire).
_b._ 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S.
5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836,
resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836;
vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. _d._ Rozel,
Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.
PEARSON, EMMA MARIA (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of
Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc.
under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick
at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in
Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France,
and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals;
author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols.
1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa
Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war
1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red
cross 1877. _d._ Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. _Times 12 June
1893 p._ 6.
PEARSON, HUGH (4 son of succeeding). _b._ 25 June 1817; educ.
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning,
Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of
Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to
bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26
Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug.
1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81,
frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of
Westminster 1881. _d._ Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. _bur._
Sonning church 18 April. _Times 19 April 1882 p._ 12.
PEARSON, HUGH NICHOLAS (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington,
Hants.). _b._ Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A.
1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the
prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay
on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation
on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V.
of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey
1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to
1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished
Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846;
domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830;
author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius
Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev.
Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of
the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839.
_d._ Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti
Sarisburiensis_ (1879) 325; _Brayley’s Surrey i_ 355–60 (1850).
PEARSON, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower
hall, Essex 1787–1865). _b._ 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June
1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13
Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice
24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882;
member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author
of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. _d._ 75
Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery. _Law quarterly review ii_ 373–8 (1886); _Law Times 22
May 1886 p._ 69.
PEARSON, JOHN ARMITAGE. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton
dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital
and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases
treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861.
_d._ St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. _bur._ St. John’s
church 11 June.
PEARSON, JOHN HENRY (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). _b._
Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers,
Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East,
London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great
name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st.
Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in
U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s,
Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master
at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. _d._ Southport 1 July