Pearce is a major proponent of women's education in India and is the author of books such as Pītāmbara Siṃhera Caritra and Satya Asraya. He trained at the Clarendon Press, Oxford and when in India, became the founder of the Baptist Mission Press. Some of his poems, 'The Uncongenial Clime', 'God the Best Friend' and 'Lines Repeated by a Little Boy at the Annual Examination of the Native Christian Boarding School at Chitpore' are to be found here: http://tinyurl.com/ox24afv.
His belongings, after his death are given to his widow Martha Hodson Pearce, who was living in Entally, a suburb of Calcutta then. After his death,in the same year (1840), Reverend Edward Steane wrote a memoir of him in the 12th edition of the 8th volume of the Foreign Missionary Chronicle, from London. Another biography of his was publihed in the Memoir of William Yates, D.D., of Calcutta (1847). His will can be found at : http://tinyurl.com/pdrvbsf
See The Foreign Missionary Chronicle (http://tinyurl.com/p9vb8mc) for his biography. Also see The Baptist Magazine for a sermon occasioned by his death. Pearce's father, Samuel Pearce, was also a famous missionary (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pearce). See http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bq/18-1_026.pdf for writings by Samuel Pearce. William Hopkins Pearce's wife, Martha married the missionary William Yates who translated the Greek Bible into Bengali (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Yates,_William_(DNB00))
Pearce's sister Anna married Jonathan Carey, son of William Carey.
See http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/16441/lot/799/?page_lots=10 for a sample of Pearce's printing. This is a book on geography in Bengali. The plaque from his grave has been moved to the South Park Street Cemetery.
References:
The Foreign Missionary Chronicle: Containing a Particular Account of the Proceedings of the Western Foreign Missionary Society, and a General View of the Transactions of Other Similar Institutions. s.n., 1840.
Betteridge, Alan. Deep Roots, Living Branches: A History of Baptists in the English Western Midlands. Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2010.
Pearce, William Hopkins. Satya āśraẏa. Calcutta Christian Tract and Book Society, 1829.
PEARCE, William Howard. Memoirs of the Rev. W. H. Pearce ... by His Friend and Companion ... in the Kingdom and Patience of Jesus Christ. (Appendix. Pieces of Poetry.). Baptist Mission Press, 1841.

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