Pearce stu­died or­gan un­der The­o­dore Ayl­ward, Will­iam Hoyte, and Ed­ward Hop­kins, and earned his de­grees at Cam­bridge Un­i­ver­si­ty (BMus 1881, DMus 1884). He served as or­gan­ist at St. Mar­tin’s, Sal­is­bu­ry (1871-3); St. Luke’s, Old Street (1874); and St. Cle­ment’s, East­cheap (1885). He was al­so Pro­fess­or at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Lon­don (1882), Dean of the Coll­ege (1892), and Ex­am­in­er at Cam­bridge for BMus (1888-91) and DMus (1895).

• Frost, p. 685

1. Midsomer Nor­ton
2. St. Mar­tin Or­gar