Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: most untiring worker, and it is matter for wonder how after days spent in a Government office or in teaching, he would spend his nights in writing history or literature. The late Dr. Pearson was descended from ancestors who migrated in the i6th century from Lincolnshire into East Yorkshire. The eldest branch of this family to which Major Pierson, the defender of Jersey, belonged, died out in the direct male line towards the end of the last century. Dr. Pearson's grandfather, John Pearson, born in 1758, having studied medicine at Leeds under the eminent surgeon W. Hay, was elected surgeon of the Lock Hospital, and while yet quite a young man, acquired one of the largest practices in London, and refused a proffered baronetcy. He married a Miss Sarah Norman, cousin to the well-known Admiral Greig, whose descendant was minister of Finance in Russia. He had seventeen children, of whom seven survived him. Dr. Pearson's father, the Rev. John Norman Pearson, M.A., was the eldest son. He became a scholar of Trinity, Cambridge, and took Holy Orders. In 1815 he married Harriet Puller. On his mother's side Dr. Pearson was de chapter{Section 4scended from Sir W. Noyes, the adviser of Ship- Money, and from the famous Lord Clarendon. The Rev. John Norman Pearson had six sons, five of whom survived him. The two eldest, John and Francis Pearson, distinguished themselves as members of the Bar, and rose to be Judges of the Supreme Court. The Rev. John Norman Pearson came to Islington as Principal of the Church Missionary College, where Charles Henry Pearson, his fourth son, was born on Sept. 7th, 1830. Taught by his father until he was twelve years old, he was rather solitary, except during the holiday time of his brothers and sisters, who were at school. His father and mo...