John Norman Pearson (1787–1865) of Tunbridge Wells and London was a prolific Victorian writer on religious subjects.
[1] Son of the surgeon John Pearson (1758–1826), born 7 December 1787, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
[2] Pearson then took holy orders, and acted as chaplain to the Marquess of Wellesley.
In 1839 he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells, a position which he resigned in 1853.
He then retired, doing occasional duty for the surrounding clergy, at Bower Hall, near Steeple Bumpstead in Essex, until his death in October 1865.