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Sir Neville Arthur Pearson, 2nd Baronet (13 February 1898 – 6 November 1982) was a British newspaper publisher.


Biography

Born in
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,
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, he was the son of the British newspaper magnate Sir C. Arthur and Dame Ethel (Fraser) Pearson. His father, who was a journalist, died in 1921, whereupon he succeeded to the baronetage. Pearson served during the
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from 1917 to 1918 in the
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. He succeeded his father as publisher of a number of magazines (working for
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in London, which had acquired C. Arthur Pearson Ltd as an imprint)."George Newnes Co,"
''Grace's Guide to British Industrial History''. Retrieved Apr. 1, 2021. From 1923 to 1953 his private secretary at George Newnes Ltd. was the British poet and novelist
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. He was married in 1922 to Hon. Mary Angela Mond, daughter of the Minister of Health Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett. In 1928 he married the actress
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, but divorced her in 1936. Sir Neville and Lady Pearson had one daughter, Sally Pearson, a.k.a. Sally Cooper, who was married to actor
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from 1961 to 1986. Sir Neville served again, during
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, as a major in an anti-aircraft regiment of the
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. In 1947 he succeeded his mother as president of St Dunstan's Hostel for the Blind, the home for blinded soldiers from World War I which his father, who had become blind himself, had founded in 1915. Pearson, who by that time had taken residence in the United States at
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, died on 6 November 1982, aged 84. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct.


See also

* Pearson Baronets


References


General references

*Pine, L. G.. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 17th edition. London, England: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1952.
Photos of Neville Pearson
National Portrait Gallery, London {{DEFAULTSORT:Pearson, Neville 20th-century British newspaper publishers (people) 1898 births 1982 deaths
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Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom