John Pearson (surgeon)

John Pearson, FRS (b York 3 January 1758 - d London 12 May 1826)^[1] was an eminent British surgeon in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.^[2]

After an apprenticeship in Morpeth he studied under William Hey.^[3] In 1780 he came to St. George's Hospital, London to work under John Hunter. He became house surgeon at Lock Hospital staying until 1818. He was also surgeon to the Public Dispensary, Carey Street. His son John Norman Pearson was an eminent Anglican priest.

Notes

1. Deaths The Times (London, England), Thursday, May 15, 1828; pg. 3; Issue 13593
2. D'A. Power, ‘Pearson, John (1758–1826)’, rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Aug 2014
3. Margaret DeLacy, ‘Hey, William (1736–1819)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Aug 2014