Michael Pearson

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Michael Pearson (born 1936) is a renowned expert on clocks and clock-making. He was born in Kent, England and educated at Dartford Grammar School. He served National Service with the Intelligence Corps, following which he returned to the private sector, working in sales, marketing and advertising. During this period he became a keen collector of antiques (an established family business), in particular clocks and timepieces. His family had been a notable family antique and antiquarian book dealing business in Covent Garden since 1860, and then in Pall Mall until 1929. Pearson resurrected the old family business, moving it to Canterbury, Kent, where he specialises in antique furniture and clocks.

His first horological book, The Beauty of Clocks, was published in 1979, and he is a renowned and respected authority on the history of clocks and clockmaking in Britain. His book Kent Clocks and Clockmakers was published in 1997 by Derbyshire-based Mayfield Books, and his next edition of that book is expected to be published in 2007.