William Pearson (priest)
The Venerable William Pearson LL.D (10 August 1662 - 6 February 1715) was Archdeacon of Nottingham from 1690 to 1715.[1]
He was the son of Rev John Pearson, Rector of Great Orton, Cumberland.
He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford graduating MA in 1688.
In 1689 he was appointed to the Prebend of Ampleford in York Minster, and the following year to the Prebend of Sariston in Southwell Minster, when he also became Archdeacon of Nottingham and Rector of Barton and Rector of Wheldrake
William Pearson was also Subdean and Chancellor of York and Rector of Bolton Percy.
In 1706 he wrote a pamphlet to the Bishop of Carlisle, concerning a curate who had been appointed churchwarden of his parish.[2]
Notes
- ^ Clerical Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross. William Maziere Brady. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. 1864
- ^ 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