John Pearson (advocate general)

John Pearson (25 December 1771 - 16 April 1841) was a British Barrister and Advocate-General of Bengal.

After graduation from Wolverhampton Grammar School,[2] he matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford on 24 October 1789.

[2] Pearson married Jane Elizabeth Matilda Hooke on 21 December 1802 and started practice as a barrister at Tettenhall and London.

[4] In April 1824 Pearson came to Calcutta with his family and was appointed as the Advocate-General of Bengal by the East India Company in place of Sergeant Robert Spankie.

[4][5] On 21 December 1802 at Barwell, Leicestershire, Pearson married Jane Elizabeth Matilda Hooke (14 April 1784, Barwell, Leicestershire - 16 November 1833, Bower Ashton, Somerset), the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Philip Hooke of the 17th Regiment.