Josiah Pearson

Josiah Brown Pearson (1841 – 10 March 1895) was the Anglican Bishop of Newcastle in New South Wales from 1880 until 1889.

Born in 1841 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Pearson was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon in 1865 and priest in 1866 he held curacies in Cambridge as well as being a Fellow at St John's (1865-80). He lectured in moral science at St John's (1865-71) and was Hulsean lecturer in 1872. Pearson struggled with the frontier-like nature of Australian dioceses, and when James Moorhouse was translated from Melbourne to Manchester in 1886, Pearson was offered and accepted an incumbency and assistant bishopric within the then vast diocese of Manchester.

His recovery was short-lived, and he died in 1895.