John Pearson (advocate general)


John Pearson was a British Barrister and Advocate-General of Bengal.

Early life

Pearson was the eldest child of Thomas Pearson Esq. of Tattenhall, Staffordshire, and his wife Elizabeth Leake. He received the earlier education under Rev. Robert Dean and Ref. Mr. Lawson. After graduation from Wolverhampton Grammar School, he matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford on 24 October 1789. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 28 October 1790 and was called to the Bar in 1802.
Pearson married Jane Elizabeth Matilda Hooke on 21 December 1802 and started practice as a barrister at Tettenhall and London.

Career

In April 1824 Pearson came to Calcutta with his family and was appointed as the Advocate-General of Bengal by the East India Company in place of Sergeant Robert Spankie. He was elected by an anonymous vote of East India Board of Directors. Due to ill health, he returned to England in 1840, and died in 1841.

Personal life

On 21 December 1802 at Barwell, Leicestershire, Pearson married Jane Elizabeth Matilda Hooke, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Philip Hooke of the 17th Regiment. They had seven children:
  1. Elizabeth Mary. She first married, at Calcutta, India on 26 April 1825, George Macartney Greville. She married secondly, at Hanover Square, London as his second wife, James Loch. She had children by her first husband.
  2. Thomas Hooke. He married and left children.
  3. Jane Frances Matilda. She married, at Barwell, Leicestershire, on 27 February 1837, Lieutenant George William Key, and had children.
  4. Hugh. He married, at Calcutta on 22 June 1837, Jane Augusta Alkinson, and had children.
  5. Emily
  6. George
  7. Rev. Charles James. He married, at Clifton-upon-Dunsmore on 8 December 1845, Mary Charlotte Moor, and had children.