Zachary Pearce


Zachary Pearce
Bishop of Rochester
Portrait by Edward Penny
Installed1756
Term ended1774
PredecessorJoseph Wilcocks
SuccessorJohn Thomas
Other post(s)Bishop of Bangor, Dean of Westminster
Personal details
Born8 September 1690
Died29 June 1774
NationalityEnglish/British
DenominationChurch of England
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Zachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah (8 September 1690 – 29 June 1774), was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton,[1] attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.

  1. ^ Christopher Ricks, Milton's Grand Style, p. 9.