The Viscount Cowdray | |
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| President of the Air Board | |
| In office 3 January 1917 – 26 November 1917 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | The Earl Curzon of Kedleston |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Rothermere |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Weetman Dickinson Pearson 15 July 1856 Shelley, Kirkburton, West Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 1 May 1927 (aged 70)[1] Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | Annie Cass |
| Children | Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray Bernard Clive Pearson Francis Geoffrey Pearson Gertrude Denman, Baroness Denman |
| Occupation | engineer, building contractor, politician |
| Known for | engineering projects, oil companies, MP Colchester, philanthropy |
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician. He was the owner of the Pearson conglomerate.
- ^ Spender, J. A., Weetman Pearson; First Viscount Cowdray (1930), Cassel and Company, LTD., Printed in London, pgs. 2, 272
- ^ "Cowdray Park, Easebourne, West Sussex". Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2021.