Charles Henry Pearson (1830-94) was a colonial minister and historian. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Correspondence and papers of C.H. Pearson, consisting of:

• Letters to Pearson, 1850-94
• Letters to other members of the Pearson family, 1872-1926
• Miscellaneous papers of Pearson, 1851-94, many relating to Oxford University
• Papers relating to The collected mathematical papers of H.J.S. Smith, ed. J.W.L. Glaisher (Oxford, 1894)
• Corrected proofs of C.H. Pearson, History of England in the early and middle ages (London, 1867)
• Miscellaneous papers
• Notes of lectures by Pearson
• Notes by Pearson on historical subjects
• Photograph album, 19th century

The papers were given to the Library in 1962.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 42698-714.

Pearson's correspondence as Minister of Education in Victoria, Australia, is in the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

Mathematics

Pearson | Charles Henry | 1834-1894 | Colonial Minister and Historian

Smith | Henry John Stephen | 1826-1883 | Mathematician

University of Oxford

Great Britain | History