About John Pearson
Lived 1819 – 1886 (aged 66). John Pearson was a British judge and barrister.
Sir John Pearson (5 August 1819 – 13 May 1886) was an English judge.
Life Pearson studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1841, and MA in 1844, and was a called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1844. He was a judge of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division from 1882. He was also a member of the Council of Legal Education.
The eldest son of the Rev. John Norman Pearson and the brother of Charles Henry Pearson, he married Charlotte Augusta Short, daughter of Rev. William Short, late rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, on 21 December 1854.
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British judge (1819-1886)
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John Pearson was born on 5 August 1819.
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John Pearson died on 13 May 1886 in South Kensington.
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