Lionel I. C. Pearson (30 January 1908 – 18 September 1988) was a British classical scholar.

Career

Lionel Ignatius Cusack Pearson was born in

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on 30 January 1908, the son of Arthur Anselm and Ellen Cusack Pearson. He is a graduate of

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(B.A. 1930), and

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(PhD 1939). He taught Greek and classics at the

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(1930–1931), Dalhousie University (1932–1938), Yale (1935–1936), and the New York State College of Teachers (1939–1940), then at Stanford University from 1940 to 1973 (except for a stint with the British Army Intelligence Corps between 1943 and 1946). Pearson was named a

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in 1957–1958. Pearson served as the president of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, and as the director and financial trustee of the APA (

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). He was the first chair of the APA Advisory Committee between 1973 and 1979. He died on 18 September 1988 of pancreatic cancer Sunday, in a hospital in

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. His wife, Doris, was killed in a car accident in 1964. They had no children.

References

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