Colonial Service
Pearson attended Uppingham School in Rutland, and then Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He enlisted in the Gurkha Rifles in 1931 and went out to India, where he transferred to the Indian Political Service. He served as Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India from 1933 to 1934. In 1945 he was awarded membership of the Order of the British Empire. He finished as Chief Minister of Manipur State from 1945 to 1947, and the village of Pearson in the Churachandpur district was named in his honour.
With the independence of India imminent, Pearson returned to Britain and settled in Lancashire where he became a farmer, and also involved himself in local government. He was a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire from 1952.
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