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 BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 87 1762, Elizabeth West; both are buried at Cornwallis. He d. aged 12 years, and she d. at the age of 85, and left, with ten other sons and four daughters. The Rev. Uhaeles TrrPEE, of Kingston, in the province of Nova Scotia, D.D., h. in tlie township of Cornwallis, 6th August, 1794 ; m. Miriam, daughter of James Lookhart, of Parrsboro', Cumberland, Nova Scotia, and widow of John Lowe ; she d. 4th July, 1851. Rev. Dr. Tupper d. 19th January, 1881, at Aylesford, Nova Scotia, and left, with other issue, Hon. Sib Chakles Ttippeb, created a baronet, as above. Creation — 13th September, 1888. Anns — Per fesse az and or on a fesse erm. between two boars pass, in chief or, and a sprig of niayflower slipped and leaved in base ppr, three escallops gu. Crest — Upon a mount vert a greyhound statant sa. charged on the body with two escallops or, holding in the mouth a sprig of niayllower as in the arms. Motto — L'espoir est ma force. Sup- porters (borne by Sir Charles Tupper as a G-.C.M.G-.) — On either side a greyhound sa. collared and pendent therefrom an escocheon or, charged with a sprig of mayflower slipped and leaved ppr. Seat — Armdale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Do- minion of Canada. London residence. — 97, Cromwell-road, S.W. Clnhs — St. George's, Hanover-square ; St. Stephen's, Westminster. Pearson J3f €Uwto(e. PEARSON, HON. CHARLES HENRY, M.A., of Ediowie, Williams- road, Toorak, Victoria, Australia, minister of public instruction, Victoria, late fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and sometime professor of modern history, King's College, London, h. at Islington, co. Middlesex, 7th September, 1830 ; 7?i. at St. George's Church, Gawler, South Australia, lOth December, 1872, Edith Lucilla, daughter of Philip Butler, Esq. of Tickford Abbey, co. Buckingham, and of Queen's Gate-terrace, South -Kensington, London, and has issue, I. Edith Gertrude Hilda, h. 23rd July, 1875. II. Evelyn Mary Muriel, h. 8th September, 1877. III. Maude Oriel Reada, I. 13th April, 1879. Mr. Pearson was educated at Rugby and King's College, London, after- wards became a student at Oriel and Exeter Colleges, University of Oxford, and took the degree of B.A. ; in 1874 arrived in Victoria from South Australia, where he had been a resident for a few years, and immediately took the position of lecturer on history at the Melbourne University, having been lecturer on modern history at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1869 to 1871. He afterwards became head master of the Ladies' Presbyterian College, which appointment he resigned in 1877, and in the following year was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria for Castlemaine. In 1862 — 3 he edited the National Bevieiv, and has published among other works, Histori/ of England in the Fourteenth Century, Hincaae. This family claims descent from the Pearsons of Lincolnshire, who migrated into Yorkshire in the 16th century. John Pearson, Esq. of the city of York, b. 1Y36, m. first, at St. Sampson's, York, 12th April, 1757, Mary, daughter of Robert Atlay, Esq. of Sheriff Hutton, co. York, and by her (who was baptised at Sheriff Hutton, 11th February, l732, and was buried at St. Sampson's, 24th September, 1772) had issue, I. John, of whom hereafter. II. James, formerly of Lisbon, and after- wards a merchant of Jamaica. III. Thomas, of Manchester, co. Lan- caster, b. 1760, ;«. 9th November, 1787, Ehzabeth, daughter of Benjamin Brierley, Esq. of Manchester, and d. July, 1827, having had by her (who was b. 22nd September, 1767, d. 9th December, 1821), 1. John, of Manchester, b. 18th September, 1788, m. 1st, at the