37. Alexander PEARCE
(118)
(128) (photo) was born on 3 May
1846 in Glascow, Scotland. He was christened on 20 May 1846 in Barony, Lanark,
Scotland. He was educated between 18 Oct 1865 and 1870 in Oxford Trinity College.
He was a in 1881 in Solicitor B.A. Trin Coll Oxford. He appeared on the census
in 1881 in 17 Old Town, Stratford On Avon, Warwick, England. He was a solicitor
btw. 1886 - 1914 in Preston Incorporated Law Society, Office of the Registrar.
(129) He died in Cheltenham, Co. Gloucester.
Administrative History
This firm was founded by Robert Hiorne Hobbes in 1828. In 1843 he took into partnership
John Slatter, and they operated as Hobbes and Slatter until 1865 when the former's
son, William Hobbes, joined the partnership to establish the firm of Hobbes Slatter
and Hobbes. This partnership was dissolved in 1876 and two new firms set up.
One consisted of Robert Hobbes and John Slatter and returned to the name Hobbes
and Slatter. William Hobbes apparently set himself up independently but the following
year, on the final breakup of the partnership between Hobbes senior and Slatter,
he was joined by his father and Alexander Pearce to form the partnership, Hobbes
Son and Pearce. On the death of Robert Hobbes this partnership was dissolved
yet again and William Hobbes re-established himself with a new partner to form
the firm Hobbes and Norbury. In the meantime John Slatter had set up in partnership
with his son (Slatter and Son) and in 1879 they were joined by Frank Gibbs (Slatter
Son and Gibbs). This partnership lasted until 1911 when the firm Slatter Son
and Slatter was established. The Slatter partnerships were housed in the Warwick
Road premises where Robert Hobbes had founded the practice. William Hobbes, when
he left the firm in 1876, practised in Old Town and Ely Street but his firm's
books were found on the Warwick Road premises, presumably because Slatter Son
and Gibbs wound up the firm when William Hobbes died.
SLATTER SON AND MORE, SOLICITORS, OF STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
From Oxford University Jan 3rd 2003
I have looked in Joseph Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886', a printed
register of all members of the University between those dates, and have found
one Alexander Pearce. He was the fifth son of Matthew Pearce of Glasgow and
matriculated (ie was admitted to the University) from Trinity College on 18
October 1865, aged 19; he graduated BA in 1870. The 'Oxford Historical
Register 1220-1900' adds the information that he obtained first class honours
in Classical Moderations in 1867 and in Natural Science in 1869
Pearce/Fox combined Coat of Arms - see College of Arms for explanation of the 'quartering' of two coats of arms.
He was married
to Francis 'Maria' FOX (daughter of William Darwin FOX Reverand
and Ellen Sophia WOODD) on 17 Sep 1878.
Francis 'Maria' FOX(118)
(71) (photo)
was born on 28 Feb 1848 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England. She appeared on the
census in 1881 in 17 Old Town, Stratford On Avon, Warwick, England. She appeared
on the census in 1901 in misspelled name (Frances). She died in 1921. She was
buried in Cheltenham, Co. Gloucester. Alexander PEARCE and Francis 'Maria' FOX
had the following children:
+86 i.
Nathaniel (Neil) PEARCE.
87 ii.
Gertrude Marjory PEARCE(118)
(71) was born on 17 Jan 1881 in Stratford On
Avon, Warwick, England. She appeared on the census in 1901 in Aughton, Lancashire,
England. She died on 18 Jan 1964. She Never Married.
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