Background
The son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington, he matriculated at Street John"s College, Oxford in 1796, and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1800.
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Hugh Pearson
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Street John"s College.
Career
He was connected with the Clapham Section(s). As a student he was introduced to Isaac Crouch of Street Edmund Hall, by a recommendation from Thomas Haweis. He then acted as curate to Richard Cecil in Chobham, and to John Venn in Clapham.
In 1802 Pearson was ordained priest by Brownlow North.
Henry Venn the younger recorded that he was nearly rejected, having praised a work of William Wilberforce. He obtained his Master of Arts in 1803.
He spent time in Clapham in 1803, and also 1804-1807. Poor health affected Pearson"s ability to work, from 1809.
In 1812 he was given the living of Sandford, in the gift of the Duke of Marlborough.
He owed this preferment to Ann Kennicott, whom he had met at Windsor where he had been living for his health, and with whom he was linked until her death in 1830, being one of her executors. He resided at Iffley, and his location just outside Oxford led to a college office of proctor at Street John"son Shortly he was part of a group of leading evangelicals who set up the Oxfordshire Bible Society.
Foreign the years 1817 to 1822 Pearson was in Brighton, at Street James"s Chapel.
Pearson became chaplain to George IV. He received his Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity degrees in 1821. Pearson was the Dean of Salisbury from 1823 to 1846.
He retired from the deanship to Sonning. Pearson married Sarah Maria Elliott (1781–1858) of Clapham in 1803.
They had four sons:
Charles Buchanan Pearson (1807–1881), rector of Knebworth.
William Henley Pearson-Jervis, cleric and historian. Henry Hugo Pierson, composer. Hugh Pearson (1817–1882), vicar of Sonning and canon of Windsor.
