Hugh McLeod Innes, Dictionary of National Biography… (1912)
“ PEARCE, Sir WILLIAM GEORGE, second baronet, of Carde (1861–1907) , benefactor to Trinity College, Cambridge, born at Chatham on 23 July 1861, was only child of Sir William Pearce [q. v.] by his wife Dinah Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Sowter of Gravesend. Educated at Rugby (1876–1878) , he matriculated in 1881 at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. and LL.B. in 1884, proceeding M.A. in 1888. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1885. ”
