2 vols. Oxford, 1844. Under this title Pearson's ‘Notes on Hesychius’ were edited by Dean Gaisford. Alberti had previously tried to get them (Fabricii Vita, p. 215). There is a copy of Hesychius's lexicon in the cathedral library at Chester, on the title-page of which Pearson has written: ‘Hesychium integrum primo perlegi mdclv. Oct. xv—Iterum mdclxvii. Mart. xxvi (Burgon, Twelve Good Men, ii. 277–8). 27. ‘Notes on St. Ignatius,’ published in Smith's edition, Oxford, 1709. 28. ‘Notes on St. Justin,’ published by Thirlby in his edition, London, 1722. 29. ‘Notes on Æschylus,’ Bibl. Bodl. Rawl. MS. 193. On Pearson's ‘Emendations on Æschylus,’ see Butler's ‘Æschylus,’ vol. iv. (4to edit.), pp. xx, xxi. 30. ‘Marginalia,’ from certain of Pearson's books preserved in Trinity College Library, published by Dr. Hort in the ‘Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology,’ i. 98 ff. 399 ff.
Among the works of Pearson which have been lost are a sermon preached at the funeral of the poet John Cleveland [q. v.], and one mentioned by Evelyn on Hebrews ix. 14; ‘Lectiones Theologicæ quamplures—Adversaria Sacra;’ ‘Vita S. Justini;’ ‘Epistolæ ad Vir. Rev. Geo. Bull;’ ‘Liber Grammaticalis.’
The whole of Pearson's theological works, with the exception of the ‘Exposition of the Creed’ and the ‘Annales Cyprianici,’ were collected and admirably edited by Archdeacon Churton in 1844.
There is an original portrait of Pearson in the hall of Trinity College, Cambridge, which has been engraved for Churton's work. In the older folio editions of the ‘Exposition of the Creed’ there is an engraving from a portrait, by W. Sonman, representing the bishop with a lean, attenuated face. The sixth and later editions contain a well-executed engraving from a drawing by Loggan, taken when Pearson was in his seventieth year; here he appears ‘fair and comely.’
Pearson bore for his arms: argent, a chevron erminois between three leaves vert (Blazon of Episcopacy).
[Life of Pearson, by Archdeacon E. Churton, prefixed to the Minor Theological Works, Oxford, 1844. This is by far the best account of the bishop, and is a most painstaking and accurate piece of work. ‘History of the Church and Manor of Wigan,’ by G. T. O. Bridgeman, in Publications of Chetham Society; John Pearson, by Archdeacon Cheetham in Masters in English Theology, edited by Bishop Barry; D'Oyly's Life of Archbishop Sancroft; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy; Burnet's History of His Own Times; Evelyn's Diary; Dean Howson's Handbook to Chester Cathedral; Baxter's Life and Times; Bishop Lightfoot's Ignatius; Wake on Convocations; Brydges's Restituta; Boswell's Johnson; Nelson's Life of Bull; Bentley's Works; Life of J. Milles; Birch's Hist. Royal Society; Blomefield's Norfolk; Le Neve's Fasti; Wills and Administrations in P. C. C.; Bishop's Certificates in dioc. Norwich; First Fruits Composition Books; Graduati Cantabrigienses; No. 13 Publications of Cambr. Antiq. Soc.; Wood's Athenæ; the ‘Old Parchment Register,’ Queens' College, Cambridge.]
PEARSON, JOHN (1758–1826), surgeon, son of John Pearson of Coney Street, York, was born there on 3 Jan. 1758. He was apprenticed, at the age of sixteen, to a surgeon in Morpeth, whence he removed, in June 1777, to Leeds. There he lived for three years, under the roof of William Hey (1736–1819) [q. v.], the great surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary, whose biography he afterwards wrote. He came to London in 1780, and entered as a student at St. George's Hospital, to work under John Hunter (1728–1793) [q. v.] He appears to have been granted the diploma of the Surgeons' Company on 4 Oct. 1781, when he was found qualified to act as surgeon to a regiment. In the same year he became house surgeon to the Lock Hospital at so critical a period of its fortunes that in 1782 he was appointed surgeon there, a post he held until 1818. He was also made surgeon, about this time, to the public dispensary, then newly founded, in Carey Street, an office which he resigned in 1809. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 24 March 1803, and he afterwards became a fellow of the Linnean Society. In 1820 he was made an honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, and he also became a member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. In 1785 he was living in Air Street, but he afterwards moved into Golden Square. He died on 12 May 1826. He married Sarah, daughter and heiress of Robert Norman of Lewisham. His son John Norman [q. v.] is separately noticed.
Pearson appears to have been a careful surgeon, with a strong scientific bias. His writings, however, are neither numerous nor important. His chief works are: 1. ‘Principles of Surgery,’ pt. i. 1788, 8vo (the second part was never published); a new edition, 1808. The principles are drawn up in a concise and aphoristical form for the use of students attending Pearson's lectures on surgery. 2. ‘A plain and rational Account of the Nature … of Animal Magnetism,’ 1790, 8vo. 3. ‘Practical Observations on Cancerous Complaints,’ London, 1793, 8vo. 4. ‘Observations on the Effects of Various
