Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson

He was second son of Charles Pearson, chartered accountant, of Edinburgh, by his wife Margaret, daughter of John Dalziel, solicitor, of Earlston, Berwickshire.

[1] After attending Edinburgh Academy, he proceeded to the University of St. Andrews, and thence to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself in classics, winning the Gaisford Greek prizes for prose (1862) and verse (1863).

[5] Pearson was a conservative, though not a keen politician, and in 1890 was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland[6] in Lord Salisbury's second administration, and was elected (unopposed) as Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.

[2] In 1891, he succeeded James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, as lord advocate,[7] and was sworn of the privy council.

In later life he lived at 7 Drumsheugh Gardens, a large Victorian townhouse in Edinburgh's West End.