Charles Henry Pearson

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Charles Henry Pearson (1830 - 1894), born at Islington, educated at Rugby School and King's College London, at the latter became Professor of Modern History. Owing to a threatened failure of sight he went to Australia, where he remained for 20 years, and was for a time Minister of Education in the Parliament of Victoria. He was the founding principal of Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, serving from 1875 until 1879.

Returning to England in 1892 he wrote his National Life and Character: a Forecast, in which he gave utterance to very pessimistic views as to the future of the race. He also wrote a History of England during the Early and Middle Ages (1867).

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.