John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray

Lt Col (Weetman) John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray (27 February 1910 - 19 January 1995) was a British peer, businessman and polo player.

Early life Weetman John Churchill Pearson and his twin sister, Angela was born on 27 February 1910 in Whitehall. They had four sisters.

His father was Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray.

He was the main driving force for the revival of polo in England after the Second World War. He played polo despite having lost his arm at Dunkirk. He had an artificial limb fitted so he could continue to play.

In 1948 or 1949, he played with the English team in the Argentinian Open. They had three children:

Hon Mary Teresa Pearson (born 3 June 1940) Hon Liza Jane Pearson (born 30 March 1942) Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray (born 17 June 1944)

Viscount and Viscountess Cowdray divorced in 1950 and on 4 March 1953 Cowdray married Elizabeth Mather-Jackson, daughter of Sir Anthony Mather-Jackson, 6th Baronet. They also had three children:

Hon Lucy Pearson (born 11 April 1954) Hon Charles Anthony Pearson (born 5 March 1956) Hon Rosanna Pearson (born 1 July 1959)

Cowdray died on 19 January 1995, at the age of eighty-four. Viscountess Cowdray died on 23 September 2011.