Lt.-Col. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray

Lt.-Col. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray

• Born on 27 February 1910.
• Son of Weetman Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray and Agnes Beryl Spencer-Churchill.
• Married, firstly, Lady Anne Pamela Bridgeman, daughter of Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford and Hon. Margaret Cecilia Bruce, on 19 July 1939. He and Lady Anne Pamela Bridgeman were divorced in 1950.
• Married, secondly, Elizabeth Georgiana Mather Mather-Jackson, daughter of Sir Anthony Henry Mather Mather-Jackson, 6th Bt. and Evelyn Mary Stephenson, on 4 March 1953. See http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=30778 for newsreel footage of this wedding.
• Died on 19 January 1995 at age 84.
• Educated at Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Succeeded as t

• 3rd Baron Cowdray, of Midhurst, co. Sussex [U.K., 1910] on 5 October 1933.3
  
• 3rd Baronet Pearson [U.K., 1894] on 5 October 1933.
  
• 3rd Viscount Cowdray, of Cowdray, co. Sussex [U.K., 1917] on 5 October 1933.
  * Fought in the Second World War, where he was severely wounded in the retreat to Dunkirk, and had his left arm amputated.

• Awarded the Territorial Decoration (T.D.)
• Lieutenant-Colonel between 1940 and 1941 in the Home Guard.
• Parliamentary Private Secretary between September 1941 and December 1942, to the Under-Secretary of Air.
• Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of Sussex in 1945.
• Chairman of S. Pearson & Son between 1954 and 1977.

Children of Lt.-Col. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray and Lady Anne Pamela Bridgeman

• Hon. Mary Teresa Pearson b. 3 Jun 1940
• Hon. Liza Jane Pearson b. 30 Mar 1942
• Michael Orlando Weetman Pearson, 4th Viscount Cowdray b. 17 Jun 1944

Children of Lt.-Col. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray and Elizabeth Georgiana Mather Mather-Jackson

• Hon. Lucy Pearson b. 11 Apr 1954
• Hon. Charles Anthony Pearson b. 5 Mar 1956
• Hon. Rosanna Pearson b. 1 Jul 1959

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