Josiah Brown Pearson (1841 – 10 March 1895) was the Anglican Bishop of Newcastle in New South Wales[1] from 1880 until 1889.
[4][5] Ordained deacon in 1865 and priest in 1866 he held curacies in Cambridge as well as being a Fellow at St John's (1865-80).
[8] Pearson struggled with the frontier-like nature of Australian dioceses, and when James Moorhouse was translated from Melbourne to Manchester in 1886, Pearson was offered and accepted an incumbency and assistant bishopric within the then vast diocese of Manchester.
[9] Pearson's mental health collapsed, and it was not until 1889 that he was able to complete his resignation as Bishop of Newcastle.
[10] By 1893 he was sufficiently recovered to became Vicar of St Peter's Church, Leck Lancashire.