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Thomas Pearce (1820–1885) was an English clergyman, known under the pseudonym "Idstone" as an author on dogs.[1]
He was born at Hatford, the son of Francis Joseph Pearce, a clergyman who died when he was aged two, and his wife Mary Ann Rickards. He then moved to be with her, in Leicestershire.[2][3]
Thomas Pearce matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford in June 1838, as did his elder brother Francis Joseph at Exeter College. The family moved to Oxford at this period.[2][3][4] Thomas graduated B.A. in 1843, and M.A. in 1849.[2]
Ordained in the Church of England in 1845, Pearce then held a number of curacies in southern England. He was in 1845 at Goldenhill; in 1847 at Highcliffe; in 1851 at Waterperry; and in 1852 in Sparsholt, which was at that time in Berkshire.[5]
Pearce became vicar of Morden, Dorset in 1853. He was also rector of Charborough from 1871. He died on 24 September 1885.[2] His interests including breeding champion setters, shooting snipe, and collecting birds.[3]
Pearce wrote articles for The Field, from 1865.[6] His works included:[1]
The compilation The Dogs of the British Islands (1866) was mostly from Pearce's work.[1] The pseudonym Idstone, from a hamlet now in Oxfordshire, is connected to Pearce family properties that lay in the civil parish of Ashbury, Oxfordshire.[7] It was a pen name, published in lists of related sporting authors.[8]
Pearce married on 14 July 1852 Fanny Georgina Blake. Her father Charles Henry Blake (1794–1872), born in Calcutta and in early life an indigo planter, became a property speculator in London. They had three sons and a daughter:[5]
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