found: Guardian WWW site, viewed Feb. 28, 2018(Edward Pearce; Edward Robin Pearce, political journalist and author, born 28 March 1939, Broseley, Shropshire; died 9 February 2018; in 1979 he joined the Daily Telegraph team of leader writers, a job that brought with it a shared responsibility for writing the parliamentary sketch at Westminster; after leaving the Telegraph, he wrote as a freelance columnist for the Sunday Times, the Guardian and Tribune, among other outlets; the 15 books written by Pearce included biographies of John Major, Denis Healey, Robert Walpole and William Pitt the Elder; wrote a history of the fight for the 1832 Reform Act and a number of plays)
