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James Roberts Pears
A 19th-century Anglican clergyman and schoolmaster, this writer is best known for a sharp pamphlet on the debate over Sunday postal service. His surviving work offers a small but vivid glimpse of religious and public life in Victorian Bath and Oxford.
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A Reply to Dr. Vaughan's "Letter on the Late Post-Office Agitation"
by James Roberts Pears
About the author
James Roberts Pears was a 19th-century British writer whose known published work includes A Reply to Dr. Vaughan's "Letter on the Late Post-Office Agitation". The title page identifies him as an M.A., master of Bath Grammar School, and a former fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
That background helps explain the tone of his writing: thoughtful, argumentative, and closely tied to the religious and civic debates of his day. His pamphlet takes part in a wider Victorian discussion about whether postal services should operate on Sundays, showing him as a public-minded commentator as well as an educator and clergyman.
Not much biographical information was easy to confirm beyond those institutional links, so his published work remains the clearest window into his life. For modern readers, Pears is most interesting as a voice from mid-19th-century England, where questions of faith, public policy, and everyday life often collided in print.