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.
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- ^ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, p. 21
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Peach-Peyton
- ^ National Archives
- ^ University of Leeds Library
- ^ Genuki
- ^ York Minster Library
- ^ 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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