water of Life,' which gives the title to a posthumous volume of essays. Mrs. Payn survived him, with two sons and five daughters, the third of whom, Alicia Isobel, married in 1885 Mr. G. E. Buckle, editor of the 'Times,' and died in 1898.
Payn's publications include:
- 'Stories from Boccaccio,' 1852.
- 'Poems,' 1853.
- 'Stories and Sketches,' 1857.
- 'Leaves from Lakeland,' 1858.
- 'The Foster Brothers:' a novel, 1859.
- 'The Bateman Household,' 1860.
- 'Richard Arbour,' 1861 (republished under the title of 'A Family Scapegrace,' 1869).
- 'Melibœus in London,' 1862.
- 'Furness Abbey and Neighbourhood,' 1862; new edit. 1869, 4to.
- 'Lost Sir Massingberd: a Romance of Real Life,' 1864, 2 vols.; 4th edit. 1878.
- 'Married beneath him,' 1865, 3 vols.
- 'People, Places, and Things,' 1865; new edit. 1876.
- 'The Cliffards of Clyffe,' 1866, 3 vols.
- 'Mirk Abbey,' 1866, 3 vols.; new edit. 1869.
- 'Lights and Shadows of London Life,' 1867, 2 vols.
- 'The Lakes in Sunshine,' Illustr. 1867; new edit. 1870.
- 'Carlyon's Year,' 1868, 2 vols.
- 'Blondel Parva,' 1868, 2 vols.
- 'Bentinck's Tutor:' a novel, 1868, 2 vols.
- 'Found Dead,' 1869.
- 'A County Family,' 1869, 3 vols.; new edit. 1871.
- 'Maxims by a Man of the World,' 1869.
- 'A Perfect Treasure; or, Incident in the Early Life of Marmaduke Drake, Esq.,' 1869.
- 'Gwendoline's Harvest:' a novel, 1870, 2 vols.
- 'Like Father, like Son,' 1870, 3 vols.
- 'Won not Wooed,' 1871.
- 'Cecil's Tryst:' a novel, 1873, 3 vols.
- 'A Woman's Vengeance,' 1872, 3 vols,; new edit. 1874, 1 vol.
- 'Murphy's Master,' 1873, 2 vols.
- 'The Best of Husbands,' 1874.
- 'At her Mercy,' 1874, 3 vols.
- 'Walter's Word,' 1875, 3 vols.; new edit. 1879.
- 'Halves,' 1876, 3 vols.; new edit, 1880.
- 'Fallen Fortunes,' 1876, 3 vols.
- 'What he cost her:' a novel, 1877, new edit. 1880.
- 'By Proxy,' 1878, 2 vols.; 1880, 1 vol.; new edit. 1898.
- 'Less Black than we're painted,' 1878, 3 vols.
- 'High Spirits: being certain Stories written in them,' 1879, 3 vols.; 1880, 1 vol.
- 'Under one Roof: a Family Episode,' 1879, 3 vols.; 1880, 1 vol.
- 'A Marine Residence, and other Tales,' 1879, 12mo; new edit. 1881.
- 'A Confidential Agent,' 1880, 3 vols.
- 'From Exile,' 1881, 3 vols.; new edit. 1883.
- 'A Grape from a Thorn,' 1881, 3 vols.
- 'Some Private Views: Essays from the "Nineteenth Century Review,"' 1882; new edit. 1883.
- 'For Cash only:' a novel, 1882, 3 vols.; new edit. 1882, 1 vol.
- ' Kit: a Memory,' 1883, 3 vols.; new edit. 1885.
- 'Thicker than Water,' 1883, 3 vols.; new edit. 1884.
- 'Some Literary Recollections,' 1884; new edit. 1885.
- 'The Canon's Ward,' 1884.
- 'In Peril and Privation,' 1885.
- 'The Talk of the Town' (or the story of the forger, William Henry Ireland), 1885.
- 'The Luck of the Darrells,' 1885; new edit. 1886.
- 'The Heir of the Ages,' 1886.
- 'Glowworm Tales,' 1887.
- 'Holiday Tasks,' 1889.
- 'A Prince of the Blood,' two edits. 1888.
- 'The Eavesdropper,' 1888.
- ' A Mystery of Mirbridge,' 1888.
- 'The Burnt Million,' 1890.
- 'The Word and the Will,' 1890.
- 'Notes from the "News," ' 1890.
- 'The Modern Dick Whittington,' 1892; another edit. 1893.
- 'A Stumble on the Threshold,' 1892; 2nd edit. 1893.
- 'A Trying Patient,' 1893.
- 'Gleams of Memory, 1894.
- 'In Market Overt,' 1895.
- 'The Disappearance of George Driffel,' 1896.
- 'Another's Burden,' 1897.
- 'The Backwater of Life,' with an Introduction by Leslie Stephen, 1899.
[Introduction by the present writer to the 'Backwater of Life,' 1899; written on information from the family. See also autobiographical notices in 'Some Literary Recollections,' 1884, and 'Gleams of Memory,' 1896.]
PEARSON, JOHN LOUGHBOROUGH (1817–1897), architect, born in Brussels in 1817, was the son of William Pearson, etcher and water-colourist, whose father, a solicitor, belonged to a family possessing property in the neighbourhood of Durham. After pupilage (1831) in the office of Ignatius Bonomi [see Bonomi, Joseph, the elder] at Durham, young Pearson continued his architectural training in London, first under Anthony Salvin [q. v.], and next with Philip Hardwick [q. v.]; under Hardwick he was engaged upon the drawings of the hall and library of Lincoln's Inn, which are said to owe at least as much to the assistant as to the master. In 1843 Pearson began independent practice. His first office was in Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, and his first works were for Yorkshire, such as Ellerker Chapel in 1843, the churches of Elloughton and Wauldby in 1844, Ellerton in 1846, and North Ferriby, completed in the same year. In 1850 Pearson began the first of the London churches with which his name is associated. Holy Trinity, Bessborough Gardens, designed for Archdeacon Bentinck, was looked upon by the contemporary leaders of the Gothic revival as a conspicuous example of good work. The style adopted was the 'geometric' type of Gothic,
