The Venerable William Pearson LL.D (10 August 1662 – 6 February 1715) was Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1690 to 1715.[1]

The son of Rev John Pearson, Rector of Great Orton in Cumberland, He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford graduating MA in 1688.[2] In 1689 he was appointed to the Prebend of Ampleford in York Minster,[3] and the following year to the Prebend of Sariston in Southwell Minster. He also held the livings at Barton, Bolton Percy[4] and Wheldrake.[5] He was also Subdean of York; and Chancellor of the diocese.[6]

In 1706 he wrote a pamphlet to the Bishop of Carlisle, concerning a curate who had been appointed churchwarden of his parish.[7]

A collection of thirteen of his sermons was published in 1718.

Notes

  1. ↑ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, p. 21
  2. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Peach-Peyton
  3. ↑ National Archives
  4. ↑ University of Leeds Library
  5. ↑ Genuki
  6. ↑ York Minster Library
  7. ↑ The Case of the Curate of Penrith's Taking Upon Him the Office of Churchwarden Considered. 1706. In a letter from the Archdeacon of Nottingham to the Bishop of Carlisle. Printed for A and F Churchill in Pater Noster Row, London. MDCCVII


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