Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet

Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Baronet (13 February 1898 – 6 November 1982) was a British newspaper publisher.

Biography Born in Frensham, Surrey, he was the son of the British newspaper magnate Sir C. Arthur and Dame Ethel (Fraser) Pearson. His father, who was a journalist, died in 1921, whereupon he succeeded to the baronetage.

Pearson served during the World War I from 1917 to 1918 in the Royal Field Artillery. He succeeded his father as publisher of a number of magazines (working for George Newnes Ltd in London, which had acquired C. Arthur Pearson Ltd as an imprint). From 1923 to 1953 his private secretary at George Newnes Ltd. was the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith.

He was married in 1922 to Hon. Mary Angela Mond, daughter of the Minister of Health Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett. In 1928 he married the actress Gladys Cooper, but divorced her in 1936. Sir Neville and Lady Pearson had one daughter, Sally Pearson, a.k.a. Sally Cooper, who was married to actor Robert Hardy from 1961 to 1986.

Sir Neville served again, during World War II, as a major in an anti-aircraft regiment of the Royal Artillery.

Pearson, who by that time had taken residence in the United States at Hightstown, New Jersey,