Entrepreneur, Philanthropist. He was a British newspaper publisher and magnate, founded "Pearson's Weekly" in 1890, and then purchased the "Daily Express" and the "Evening Standard" in the 1900s. Born Cyril Arthur Pearson, his mother Phillippa Massingberd Maxwell-Lyte, was the granddaughter of Henry Lyte, the hymnist who authored "Abide With Me." He was educated at the public school of Winchester College, before beginning his on-the-job training for the London-based publisher Sir George Newnes on the "Tit-Bits" magazine and rapidly reaching to the position of assistance and the start of his lucrative publishing career. In early 1890, he founded the business of C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., newspaper proprietors and publishers. Besides "Pearson's Weekly," he founded and directed "Pearson's Magazine," "The Lady's Magazine," "Royal Magazine" and in 1900 the "London Daily Express" along with a host of newspapers in various English cities. His newspapers were the first ever to post the news instead of advertisements on the front page. He attempted to convert conservative newspapers to being much more liberal. He became a powerful, wealthy man. In 1892 he established the Fresh Air Fund, which provided holidays and outings for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children. In 1908 he supported the Boys Scout movement in England. Politically, he was a supporter of Liberal politician Joseph Chamberlin's tariff-reform movement, organized the Tariff Reform Leagues in 1903. In 1908 he was diagnosed with glaucoma. With limited treatments, his independence declined with his vision loss by 1910, and the blindness forced him to relinquish his newspapers. From that point on, the rest of his life was focused to aiding those who were blind. Pearson published his "Pearson's Easy Dictionary" in Braille form in 1912. Using his residence, he founded the St. Dunstan's training center for blinded soldiers of World War I. In 1920 the center was moved to Regent's Park in London. In 1915, after he was completely blind, he became chairman of the Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Care Committee. Mustard gas used in World War I was the primary cause of the military blindness. In 1914 he became president of the National Institution for the Blind and being very successful in soliciting funds for the blind. As a philanthropist for the blind, he was created a baronet in 1916 and G.B.E. in the first gazette of the new Order of the British Empire in 1917. In 1919, he wrote "Victory over Blindness," after successfully writing years earlier a number of tourists guides for locations in Britain and Europe. Being independent and unaided, he died from a fall while getting into a bath tub, hitting his head on the faucet, becoming unconscious, and drowning. His biography "The Life of Sir Arthur Pearson" was written by Sidney Dark in 1922. In December 31, 1887, Pearson married Isobel Sarah Bennett. Ten years later on June 3, 1897, he married Ethel Maud Fraser. Upon his death, his only son Neville Arthur Pearson, born 1898, became the 2nd Baronet and shares his father's gravestone. According to his "New York Times" obituary, besides his son, he had three daughters. His wife, Ethel, became Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1920 and as his widow, continued to manage the St. Dunston training center. In the 21st century, the St. Dunstan's training center has been renamed the Blind Veterans UK, and an English Heritage blue marker has been placed on the original building.