PEARSON, David Arthur 1931-2026

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 10 Jan 2026: PEARSON David Arthur on 4th January aged 94. Wonderful father to Charles, Joanna and Lucy, and doting grandfather to Ben, Oli, Annabel, Fred, Harry, Tom and Rosie. Loving and caring husband to Carolyn and Gillian. Funeral at Landican, Wirral at 12 noon on Friday 6th February. Donations welcome to [Holyhead Maritime Museum]…

He was s of Lt-Cdr Thomas Arthur PEARSON 1887-1974 and Violet Kathleen Mary 1902-2000 d of Col Lawrence WILLIAMS 1876-1958 (gs of Sir John WILLIAMS 1 Bt d 1830) and Catherine Elizabeth Anne 1876-1905 d of Col George PHIBBS 1844-85 by his m to Frances Charlotte Bramston SMITH 1843-1912. He m 1 1960 (div 1977) Carolyn Frances b 1941 d of Frank Hilary MINOPRIO 1913-80 scion of that Welsh gentry family of Haulfryn and Mary Willoughby RENISON 1914-93, and had a son and two daus as above. He m 2 1981 Gillian Mary d of G BUCKLEY of Wirral, Cheshire.

[S R Eglesfield]

Lt-Col George PHIBBS was of that family, of Lisheen, County Sligo, which, per Burke's Family Index, last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry in the 1912 edition. His wife (married 6 VII 1869) was the eldest daughter of Lt-Col Robert BRAMSTON-SMITH (1807 - 21 IV 1890) and his wife (married 4 IV 1839), Elizabeth Charlotte GRIFFITH (c.1817 - 4 XI 1907), second daughter of Sir Richard John GRIFFITH, 1st Bt (20 IX 1784 - 22 IX 1878), who was the son of Richard GRIFFITH (10 VI 1752 - 30 VI 1820), MP for Askeaton, County Limerick, in the Irish House of Commons, 1783-90, and his first wife (married 17 IX 1780), Charity Yorke BRAMSTON (c.1760 - 7 I 1793?).

 

Lt-Col Robert BRAMSTON-SMITH, who assumed the additional surname of Bramston in the year of his marriage, was the only surviving son of Joshua SMITH and his wife, Maria STEELE (1779 - 1841), younger daughter of Sir Parker STEELE, 2nd Bt (1743 - 13 V 1787).

[S R Eglesfield]

Correction:  per Burke's Family Index, the Phibbs family last appeared in Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland in the 1912 edition.