Richard Pearson

Richard Pearson (1765 – 11 January 1836) was an English physician and medical writer. Life He was born in Birmingham. After education at Sutton Coldfield grammar school, he began medical study under Mr. Tomlinson in Birmingham. He went on to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. on 24 June 1786. While a student he became president of the Royal Medical Society, as well as of the Natural History Society in the university. After graduating Pearson travelled in France, Germany, and Italy for two years with Thomas Knox, Lord Northland. On 22 December 1788 he was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London, and began practice at Birmingham, where he became physician to the General Hospital in September 1792. In 1801 Pearson resigned his hospital appointment and settled in London, where he lived in Bloomsbury Square. After 1812 he moved to Reading, Berkshire; then to Sutton Coldfield; and back to Birmingham, where he was one of the founders of the medical school.