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The eldest son of William Harold Pearsall, (1891–1964), F.R.S., and professor of freshwater biology at Sheffield University and Manchester University, and his wife Marjorie Williamson, a lecturer in botany, was born at Leeds, while his parents were both lecturers at the University of Leeds.