The Henson Journals

Ernest Harold Pearce

Ernest Pearce (1865-1930; ODNB), friend of Henson from their time in Westminster (Retrospect, I, II), and admired by Henson for his historical work (Braley, Letters, 50-1); vicar, Christ Church, Newgate St., 1895-1911; ecclesiastical correspondent, The Times, from 1899; unofficial advisor to successive prime ministers on church appointments, and played a large part in the appointment of Henson to the bishopric of Hereford (see TNA, PREM5/7); canon, Westminster Abbey, 1911-19, treasurer, 1912-16, and sub-dean, 1918-19; archdeacon of Westminster, 1916-18; assistant chaplain-general of the army, 1915-19; bishop of Worcester, 1919-30; lived with his sister, Edith Kate Pearce (1867-1955); Athenaeum; see also Volume 65.

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