Author: Pearson, George
Biography:
PEARSON, George (1782-1834: findmypast.com)
Nothing is known of his birth or education but at the time of his death, aged 52, in 1834 he was employed as an agent of the Bedlington iron works in Northumberland; before that he had lived in Brough, Westmorland. He had been a regular contributor to “sixteen or seventeen” periodicals over the years. The preface to his only book, published in Kendal and dedicated to Robert Southey (q.v.), refers with affection to Appleby and Eden-side in the Lake District. He cannot be the George Pearson born in Appleby in 1801 but he might be the one who married Ruth Hall at Appleby on 14 Sept. 1824; no records of baptism have been found for children. He died at Bedlington on 13 June 1834 and was buried at St. Cuthbert’s on 17 June. The obituary in the Carlisle Patriot, to which he had been an occasional contributor, praises him as a “sincere Christian” and a man possessed of “literary abilities of no mean order.” (findmypast.com 6 Sept. 2023; ancestry.com 6 Sept. 2023; Carlisle Patriot 21 June 1834) HJ