Stanley Law Pearson was a dental surgeon from Ilkley, Yorkshire. He was born on 25 March 1926, the son of Stanley Pearson, a dentist from Liverpool, and Lucinda Pearson née Law. In the 1939 England and Wales Register Pearson is listed as living in Anglesey, Wales, with his younger brother Henry. Pearson studied dentistry at the University of Liverpool, as his father had done before him, and gained his BDS in 1949. He became a fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1959. He married Ida Austrell Gill in 1952. His last known address was in Ilkley, Yorkshire. He died in 2005.