Hugh Pearson (canon of Windsor)

[1] He was born in Oxford and studied briefly at Eton College, before moving on to Harrow School, where he was Head Boy.

Soon after he arrived, he suffered a riding accident on a bridge at the then newly created Sonning Cutting on the Great Western Railway, when his horse bolted due to a passing steam train.

[5][6] Pearson was the brother of Henry Hugh Pierson (12 April 1815 – 28 January 1873) was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany.

[7] Pearson was a close friend of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881), Dean of Westminster, who also attended Balliol College.

From 1876 until his death in 1882, Pearson was also a Canon of the Eleventh Stall at St George's Chapel within Windsor Castle, during the reign of Queen Victoria.