| Authorised form of name | Pearce; Zachary (1690 - 1774) |
| Other forms of name | Zachariah |
| Other forms of surname | 'Zachary Bangor' |
| 'Zachary Rochester' |
| Dates | 1690 - 1774 |
| Place of birth | Parish of St Giles's, High Holborn, London, England |
| Date of birth | 08 September 1690 |
| Place of death | Little Ealing, Middlesex |
| Date of death | 29 June 1774 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
By the side of his wife, Bromley, Kent |
| Occupation | Clergyman, Church of England |
| Activity | Education:
School at Great Ealing, Middlesex; Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1714), MA (1717); DD (Lambeth)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1716); ordained deacon (1717), priest (1718); Chaplain to the Lord Chancellor Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712); Rector of Stapleford Abbots, Essex (1719-1722); Rector of St Bartholomew, Royal Exchange (1720-1724); Chaplain to the King (1721-1739); Rector of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (1724-1756); Dean of Winchester (1739); Bishop of Bangor (1748-1756); Dean of Westminster (1756-1768); Bishop of Rochester (1756-1774)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/06/1720 |
| Proposer | James Pound |
| William Stukeley |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1721 |
| Relationships | Son of Thomas or John Pearce, Distiller, of Holborn and Little Ealing, Middlesex; married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Adams, Distiller, of Holborn |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
Gentleman's Magazine 1774, p333, 1777, p19 (Autobiographical memoir)
London Magazine 1774, p356; 1777, p 149 (Memoir) |
| Code | NA7582 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RBO/19/35 | 'An Account of Monsieur Fourmont's Book intitled: Reflections critiques sur les histories des anciens peuples etc' by Zachary Pearce | 1735 |
| IM/003467 | Pearce, Zachary | nd |
| CLP/22ii/77 | Paper, Account of Matthew Bel's 'Notitia Hungariae novae Historico-Geographica etc [Notice of the new historical-geographic Hungary]' by Zachary Pearce | [1735] |