Thomas Pearce (1820–1885) was an English clergyman, known under the pseudonym "Idstone" as an author on dogs.
[1] He was born at Hatford, the son of Francis Joseph Pearce, a clergyman who died when he was aged two, and his wife Mary Ann Rickards.
He was in 1845 at Goldenhill; in 1847 at Highcliffe; in 1851 at Waterperry; and in 1852 in Sparsholt, which was at that time in Berkshire.
[2] His interests including breeding champion setters, shooting snipe, and collecting birds.
Her father Charles Henry Blake (1794–1872), born in Calcutta and in early life an indigo planter, became a property speculator in London.