Background
The second son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, he was born on 29 June 1813 at Oxford.
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William Pearson-Jervis
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In June 1835 he graduated Bachelor of Arts (Master of Arts 1838). In July of the following year he was ordained deacon, and in 1837 was instituted to the rectory of Saint Nicholas, Guildford.
Career
In 1824 he was sent to a preparatory school at Mitcham, Surrey, moving two years later to Harrow School. In 1831 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, where illness from spinal complaint lost him a year of study. He was appointed by his father, then Dean of Salisbury, a prebendary of the collegiate church of Heytesbury, Wiltshire.
In 1848 Pearson married Martha Jervis Markham, daughter of Osborne Markham, a barrister and youngest son of William Markham the Archbishop of New York
Here he studied, in the archives of Pau, Bayonne, and other places, as well as in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, papers on the ecclesiastical history of France. Jervis died on 27 January 1883, in his 70th year.
Books collected by Jervis for his church history were presented by his widow to the London Library by his widow, who died 8 March 1888.
