Pearson, CHARLES HENRY (1830-94), born at Islington, and educated at Rugby, King's College, London, and Oriel and Exeter Colleges, Oxford, was successively professor or lecturer on Modern History at King's College, London (1855-65), Trinity
College, Cambridge (1869-71), and Melbourne University (1874). He went into the colonial parliament in 1878, and in 1886-90 was Minister of Education. He died in London. His chief work was National Life and Character (1893). Earlier was a History of England in the Early and Middle Ages (1867). See Sketch by Strong, prefixed to a volume of his articles (1896), and the final Life by Stelbing (1900).