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PEARSE, BEST, son of Thomas Pearse MP, Commissioner of the Navy, and ---, dau. of Thomas Best, Chatham, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1731; left 1733; Clerk to Clerk of Acts, Navy Office Jan 1736 – May 1737; Clerk to Treasurer of Navy May 1737 – [check]; of Hoddesdon, Herts.; High Sheriff, Cambridgeshire 1750 [check]; m. 1st, 7 Jul 1743 Anne Johnson (IGI); m. 2nd, 6 Dec 1752 Sarah Butler (IGI); d. Jun 1792.

Pears, Oliver Robert, brother of Michael Andrew Pears (qv); b. 9 Aug. 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (W); left July 1940; a farmer in Devon; m. 19 July 1952 Bridget Anne, d. of Lieut. -Col. Charles Frederick Masters of Edgbaston, Warwicks; d. 14 Jan. 2003.

Pears, Michael Andrew, son of Robert Pears, business executive, of Hanwell, Middx, and Gladys Evelyn, d. of Sidney Myers, architect, of Torcross, Kingsbridge, Devon; b. 4 July 1920; adm. May 1934 (H); left July 1939; St Mary's Hosp. Med. Sch., MB BS 1951, MD 1952, MRCP 1953; RNVR 1941-5 (Lieut.); assoc. Prof. of Medicine Med. Coll. of Virginia, USA; m. 1st 11 Apr. 1946 Mary, d. of Henry Gover; 2nd 6 June 1968 Jenifer Dixon, d. of Dr Robert Gibson Chaffee of Lyme, NH, USA; d. 2 May 1995.

Pears, David Francis, brother of Michael Andrew Pears (qv); b. 8 Aug. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H, non-res. KS); left July 1939; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA MA 1947 (1st class hons Litt. Hum.); RA in WW2; lecturer Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1948-50; Fellow and Tutor Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. 1950-60; visiting Prof. Harvard Univ. 1959, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1964, Rockefeller Univ. 1967, Los Angeles Univ. 1979; FBA 1970; Student of Ch. Ch. 1960-88; Reader in Philos­ophy Univ. of Oxford 1971-85, Prof. 1985-88; Delegate OUP 1977; chairman Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1974-85; Curator of Pictures Ch. Ch. 1975-88; a Governor of the school 1975-88; author of Bertrand Russell and the British Tradition in Philosophy 1967, Ludwig Wittgenstein 1969, Motived Irrationality 1984, The False Prison: a Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, vol. I 1987, vol. II 1988; m. 1963 Anne Drew; d. 1 July 2009

Pearman, Richard Carrol, brother of John Barton Pearman (q.v.); b. March 4, 1873; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (H); left April 1887, and went to St. Paul's School; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. June 15, 1891); B.A. 1895; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn June 22, 1898; equity draftsman and conveyancer; admitted a solicitor 1913, and practised in London; m. June 22, 1901, Laura Mabel, daughter of William Stratford Andrews, of Chislehurst, Kent; d. Nov. 14, 1946.

Pearman, John Barton, son of John Pearman, of Lambeth, solicitor, by Rose Emma, daughter of Richard Carrol Barton, of Streatham, Surrey; b. Aug. 18, 1871; adm. Jan. 24, 1884 (H); left April 1887, and went to St. Paul's School; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. May 27, 1889); B.A. 1892; LL.B. 1895; adm. a solicitor June 1896, practised in London; d. May 7, 1944.

PEARKS, THOMAS; b.; in school list Dec 1736; left 1739.

PEARKS, HENRY; b. 16 Nov 1850; adm. 5 Feb 1863; left Christmas 1864. [Perhaps b. Belbroughton, Worcs., corn and coal merchant, London, m. Harriet A. ---, 1881 Census : but he was christened Belbroughton 15 Dec 1850 as Henry Pearkes, son of Thomas Pearkes and Margaret --- (IGI)].

PEARCE, ZACHARY, son of John Pearce, St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn, Middlesex, distiller; b. 8 Sep 1692; adm. 12 Feb 1704; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1710, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1710, scholar 14 Apr 1711; BA 1713/4; MA 1717; DD Lambeth 1 Jun 1724; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 29 Sep 1716, Major Fellow 1 Jul 1717; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1717, priest 8 Jun 1718 (both Ely); Chaplain to Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor; Rector of St. Bartholomew’s by the Exchange, London 19 Mar 1719/20-4; FRS 30 Jun 1720; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I and II 1721-39; Vicar of St. Martin in the Fields, London 10 Jan 1723/4-56; Dean of Winchester 2 Aug 1739; consecrated Bishop of Bangor 21 Feb 1747/8; Dean of Westminster 4 May 1756 – 24 Jun 1768, res.; translated from Bangor to Rochester 9 Jul 1756, holding see to death; edited Longinus, 1721, and other works; bequeathed his library to Dean and Chapter of Westminster; m. Feb 1721/2 Mary, dau. of Richard Adams, Holborn, distiller; d. 29 Jun 1774. Monument, South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.