Obituary: Professor J. D. Pearson
B. C. Bloomfield, The Independent (London, England)
J. D. Pearson was the most influential librarian in Oriental and African studies ever known in Britain. When he was appointed to the library of London University's School of Oriental and African Studies in 1950, the library had 17 staff members and a stock of 100,000 volumes; when he gave up the librarianship 22 years later the staff stood at 40, the stock at some 500,000 items, and it was the most important library of its kind in Europe.
James Douglas Pearson was born in 1911 and educated at Cambridge County High School for Boys. He left school at the age of 16 with, as he himself termed it, "undistinguished attainments" and secured a post as a book-fetcher, or "library …
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Article title: Obituary: Professor J. D. Pearson.
Contributors: B. C. Bloomfield - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: August 9, 1997.
Page number: 16.
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