1. Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician.
15 Facts About Charles Pearson
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Charles Pearson campaigned against corruption in jury selection, for penal reform, for the abolition of capital punishment, and for universal suffrage.
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When this plan was rejected, Charles Pearson promoted an underground railway connecting the capital's northern termini.
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The couple had one child, Mary Dutton Charles Pearson, born in 1820.
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In 1817, Charles Pearson was elected a councilman of the City of London Corporation for Bishopsgate ward and served in that role from 1817 to 1820 and from 1830 to 1836 as well.
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Charles Pearson served as chairman of the City board of health from 1831 to 1833.
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Charles Pearson was in favour of the disestablishment of the Church of England and opposed capital punishment.
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Charles Pearson unsuccessfully attempted to break the local monopolies developed by the gas companies, calling for the distribution pipework to be owned collectively by the consumers.
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Charles Pearson was a Liberal and was elected at the 1847 general election as a Member of Parliament for Lambeth.
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Charles Pearson's campaign was prompted by a desire to promote his penal reform campaign in parliament.
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Charles Pearson resigned his seat in 1850 thorough the mechanism of accepting the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
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Charles Pearson made a proposal for a railway connecting the London Termini and presented as evidence the first survey of traffic coming into London which demonstrated the high level of congestion caused by the huge number of carts, cabs and omnibuses filling the roads.
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Charles Pearson issued a pamphlet, A twenty minutes letter to the citizens of London, in favour of the Metropolitan Railway and City Station, encouraging investment and he even persuaded the City of London to invest on the basis that the railway would alleviate the City's congestion problems.
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Charles Pearson died of dropsy on 14 September 1862 at his home at West Hill, Wandsworth, and did not live to see the opening of the Metropolitan Railway on 10 January 1863.
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Charles Pearson was buried at West Norwood Cemetery on 23 September 1862.