Edward Pearson
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Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edward Pearson was an English academic and theologian, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1808. Life He was born at St. George's Tombland in Norwich on 25 October 1756, eldest son of Edward Pearson a wool-stapler there, who shortly moved to Tattingstone, Suffolk and was governor of the local poorhouse. He was educated at home, and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge as sizar, on 7 May 1778. The Rev. John Hey, the college tutor, who held the rectory of Passenham, Northamptonshire, appointed him his curate .
