Background
PEARSON, Arthur Ashley was born in 1847. 2nd son of late Sir Edwin Pearson, Knight, and Honourable Alicia Anne, daughter of 3rd Viscount Lifford.
PEARSON, Arthur Ashley was born in 1847. 2nd son of late Sir Edwin Pearson, Knight, and Honourable Alicia Anne, daughter of 3rd Viscount Lifford.
Ay)pointed after a competitive examination Clerk in Colonial Office, 1867. Assistant Private Secretary to late Earl of Carnarvon, 1874-1878. To Right Honourable Sir M. Hicks-Beach, February to March 1878.
Private Secretary to Earl Cadogan, July 1879 to April 1880.
And to Right Honourable Sir M. East. Grant Duff, April to December 1880. Represented the Crown Colonies at the Conference on Postage within the British Empire held at London in June and July 1898.
One of the British Delegates at the Brussels Sugar Conference, 1901-1902. 1903-1909, one of the Assistant Delegates for Great Britain on the International Commission constituted under the Brussels Sugar Convention of 1902.
1909, accompanied Sir Charles Lucas on his mission to Australia 1582 PEARSE, Reverend Mark Guy, West London Mission.
B. Cambo and New Zealand on behalf of the Colonial Office. Principal Clerk in Colonial Office, 1895-1896. Retired, 1906.
Club: Athenaeum.
Spouse 1880, Margaret Hyde,daughter of Edward Hyde Greg of Quarry Bank, Handforth, Cheshire.