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The Rt Rev Alfred Pearson was second Bishop of Burnley from 1905 to 1909. Born in Brixton on 30 April 1848 and educated at Lincoln College Oxford he was ordained in 1874. After a curacy at St Andrew’s Leeds he heldincumbencies at St Ebbe’s Oxford All Saints’ Church Nottingham (1880-1888) St Margaret’s Brighton and St Mark’s Sheffield (where he was also Rural Dean of the area) before his elevation to the Episcopate. He died on 19 March 1909.