Charles Pearson

Charles Pearson was a British lawyer and politician. He was solicitor to the City of London, a reforming campaigner, and – briefly – Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Lambeth. He campaigned against corruption in jury selection, for penal reform, for the abolition of capital punishment, and for universal suffrage.

4 October 1793

Born on the same birth day (4 October): Ann Thwaite • Anneka Rice • Basil D'Oliveira • Caitríona Balfe • Ella Balinska • Evgeni Krasnopolski • Francisco Vallés • George Sidney • Giovanni Battista Piranesi • H. Rap Brown • John Rutherford (rugby union) • Juliette Adam • Kazuki Takahashi • Lesley Glaister • Lloyd Green • Mauro Camoranesi • Susan Sarandon • Yngve Moe

Born in the same month (October 1793): Eliphalet Remington • Maria James