John Loughborough Pearson (1817-96) was brought up in Durham, and trained by Ignatius Bonomi and Salvin, who introduced him to the Ecclesiological principles. He coordinated a vast practice of church building and restoration, restoring or rebuilding more than a hundred parish churches and working on several cathedrals. In 1870 he was nominated surveyor of Lincoln Cathedral and in 1879 successor to Scott at Westminster Abbey.