EDWARD, D.D., a learned divine of the English Church, was descended from the famous Dr John Pearson, Bishop of Chester, and was born at Norwich on the 7th November, 1756. He was educated at Sidney College, Cambridge, of which he afterwards became fellow and tutor. No sooner had he been appointed rector of Rempsitone in Nottinghamshire in 1796, than he began a career of great professional activity. His zeal was manifested with marked effect in the inculcation of practical re- ligion. He preached numerous sermons on special occasions, edited prayer-books and catechisms, and wrote tracts and discourses for the special enlightenment of the lower classes. Nor were his faculties less willingly exerted against schismatics. He published *Three Plain Reasons against Separating from the Established Church*, *Three Plain Reasons for Infant Baptism*, and *An Admonition against Lay-Preaching*. But it was for his bold attack on supposed heresies among the Anglican hierarchy that Dr Pearson was chiefly famous. In 1800 and 1801 successively he attacked the theoretical and the practical part of Paley's *Moral and Political Philosophy*; and in 1802 he published *Remarks on the Controversy between the Arminian and the Calvinistic Ministers of the Church of England*. He assailed the Calvinism of the evangelical party in the person of Overton of York in 1802, and of Simson of Cambridge in 1810. His death happened in 1811, three years after he had been elected master of Sidney College, Cambridge. (See *A Brief Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of the Rev. Ed. Pearson, D.D.*, by W. P. Hunt, 1845, to which is appended a complete list of the author's writings.)

Pearson, John, D.D., a learned English bishop, was born at Great Snoring in the county of Norfolk, on the 28th of February 1613. After his education at Eton and Cambridge, he entered into holy orders in 1639, and was the same year collated to the prebendary of Netherhaven, in the church of Sarum. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the Lord-Keeper Finch; and was presented to the living of Thorington in Suffolk during the same year. In 1650 he was made preacher of St Clement's, Eastcheap, in London. In 1657 he and Peter Gunning had a dispute with two Roman Catholics upon the subject of schism, a very unfair account of which was printed at Paris by one of the disputants, named Tyrwhitt, in 1658. In 1659 he published at London his celebrated *Exposition of the Creed*, dedicated to his parishioners of St Clement's, Eastcheap, to whom the substance of that excellent work had been preached several years before, and by whom he had been desired to make it public. The same year he likewise published the *Golden Remains of the ever-memorable Mr John Hales of Eton*, to which he prefixed a preface containing a character of that eminent man, with whom he had been acquainted for many years, drawn up with great elegance and force. Pearson had also a principal share in the editing of the *Critici Sacri*, first published in 1660. Soon after the Restoration he was presented by Juxon, then bishop of London, to the rectory of St Christopher's in that city; created doctor of divinity at Cambridge, in pursuance of the king's letters mandatory; installed prebendary of Ely, archdeacon of Surrey, and made master of Jesus College in Cambridge, all before the end of the year 1668. In 1661 he was appointed Margaret professor of divinity in that university; and on the first day of the ensuing year he was nominated one of the commissioners for the review of the Liturgy in the conference held at the Savoy. On the 14th of April 1662 he was admitted master of Trinity College in Cambridge; and in August resigned his rectory of St Christopher's and his prebend of Sarum. In 1667 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1672 he published at Cambridge *Vindiciae Epistolaeorum S. Ignatii*, in 4to, in answer to Daillé; to which is subjoined *Isaacii Vossii Epistolae Due adversus Davidem Blondelium*. Upon the death of the celebrated Dr Wilkins, Pearson was appointed his successor in the see of Chester, to which he was consecrated on the 9th of February 1672–1673. In 1682 his *Annales Cyprianici* were published at Oxford, with Fell's edition of that father's works. Pearson was disabled from all public service by ill health a considerable time before his death, which happened at Chester on the 16th of July 1686. Pearson's last work, the *Two Dissertations on the Succession and Times of the First Bishops of Rome*, formed the principal part of his *Opera Posthuma*, edited by Henry Dodwell in 1688. (See a Memoir of Bishop Pearson, prefixed to the edition of his *Minor Theological Works*, by Edward Churton, 2 vols., Oxford, 1844.)