| Biography | Sir Edward Pearson succeeded his father at Brickendonbury, near Hertford in England.. He was born at Bradford on 10 May 1874 and married, in 1904, Susannah Grace, daughter of the late Richard Benyon Croft of Fanhams Hall, Ware. Like his father before him he was a director of S Pearson & Sons and became a magistrate in 1901. He became High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1909, was knighted in 1917, was mayor of Hertford for three years and was president of the Hertfordshire Agricultural Society. He also gave land on Parliament Square, Hertford, for the erection of the war memorial. His civil engineering firm, S Pearsons & Sons, was responsible for the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia.
He was very keen on scientific methods of farming and bred a fine stud of Shire horses and a noted herd of Dairy Shorthorn and Devon cattle for which he won several prizes. Sir Edward died in 1925 and although his widow continued to own Brickendonbury for some years she did not live there after her husbands death. Lady Pearson survived until 1973. |