Charles Henry Pearson
Charles Henry Pearson
| Prof. Charles Henry Pearson MA | |||||||||
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| Born | 1830 | ||||||||
| Died | 1894 | ||||||||
| Residence | 7 Caroline St, Bedford Sq | ||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||
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Office Notes
ESL Council 1858-59 Member
ESL Council 1859-60 Member
ESL Council 1860-61 Member
ESL Council 1861-62 Member [retiring]
House Notes
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
Notes From Elsewhere
Charles Henry Pearson (1830-1894) obtained a First in Lit Hum in 1853 and was President of the Union. He became a Fellow of Oriel College the same year and started studying medicine but gave that up as a result of ill health. He moved to London to become Professor of Modern History at King’s College, a post he held from 1855 to 1864. Despite this he retained his Oriel Fellowship until 1872 the year he married. He joined the ESL in 1856, and became a member of Council in 1858 which he occasionally chaired. He supported the move to allow the attendance of women at meetings. He served his full term and retired from Council in 1862. Later the same year he resigned his ESL membership, although we do not know why. Despite his continuing Oxford connection during the period he was a Fellow of the ESL, he cannot be said to have played a role in the early history of anthropology or archaeology at the University. Much of the rest of his life was spent in Australia. He visited there in 1865, returning there in 1872, and although he died on a visit to England, lived there for the rest of his life. [Peter Riviere]
Charles Henry Pearson (7 September 1830 – 29 May 1894)[1] was a British-born Australian historian, educationist, politician and journalist. According to John Tregenza, "Pearson was the outstanding intellectual of the Australian colonies. A democrat by conviction, he combined a Puritan determination in carrying reforms with a gentle manner and a scrupulous respect for the traditional rules and courtesies of public debate...In 1849 he matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford. Not enjoying teaching, he devoted most of his energy to the Oxford Union, of which he was elected president in 1852–53, and was associated with some of the most distinguished men of his period. Pearson began to study medicine, but two years later had a serious attack of pleurisy while on holiday in Ireland and as a result discontinued his studies because medical life was considered arduous.[2] [3]
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1867
Publications
External Publications
National Life and Character: a Forecast,
Pearson also wrote Russia by a recent traveller (1859), Insurrection in Poland (1863), The Canoness: a Tale in Verse (1871), History of England in the Fourteenth Century (1876), Biographical Sketch of Henry John Stephen Smith (1894). A selection from his miscellaneous writings, Reviews and Critical Essays, was published in 1896, with an interesting memoir by his friend, Professor Herbert Strong.[3]
