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PEASE, EDWARD (1767–1858)

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PEASE, See also:EDWARD (1767–1858) , the founder of a famous See also:industrial Quaker See also:family in the See also:north of See also:England, was See also:born at See also:Darlington on the 31st of May 1767, his See also:father, See also:Joseph Pease (1737–1808), being a woollen manufacturer in that See also:town. Having retired from this business Edward Pease made the acquaintance of See also:George See also:Stephenson, and with him took a prominent See also:part in constructing the railway between See also:Stockton and Darlington. He died at Darlington on the 31st of See also:July 1858. His second son, Joseph Pease (1799–1872), who assisted his father in his railway enterprises, was M.P. for See also:South See also:Durham from 1832 to 1841, being the first Quaker to sit in See also:parliament. He was interested in collieries, quarries and ironstone mines in Durham and North See also:Yorkshire, as well as in See also:cotton and woollen manufactures; and he was active in educational and philanthropic See also:work. Another son, See also:Henry Pease (1807–1881), was M.P. for South Durham from 1857 to 1865. Like all the members of his family he was a supporter of the See also:Peace Society, and in its interests he visited the See also:emperor See also:Nicholas of See also:Russia just before the outbreak of the See also:Crimean See also:War, and later the emperor of the See also:French, See also:Napoleon III. Joseph Pease's eldest son, See also:Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease (1828–1903), was made a See also:baronet in 1882. He was M.P. for South Durham from 1865 to 1885 and for the See also:Barnard See also:Castle See also:division of Durham from 1885 to 1903. His See also:elder son, Sir See also:Alfred Edward Pease (b. 1857), who succeeded to the baronetcy, became famous as a See also:hunter of big See also:game, and was M.P. for See also:York from 1885 to 1892 and for the See also:Cleveland division of Yorkshire from 1897 to 1902. A younger son, Joseph See also:Albert Pease (b.

186o), entered parliament in 1892, and in 1908 became See also:

chief Liberal See also:whip, being advanced to the See also:cabinet as See also:chancellor of the duchy of See also:Lancaster in 1910. Another son of Joseph Pease was See also:Arthur Pease (1837–1898), member of parliament from 188o to 1885 and again from 1895 to 1898. His son, See also:Herbert See also:Pike Pease (b. 1867), M.P. for Darlington 1898–1910, was one of the Unionist Whips. The Diaries of Edward Pease were edited by Sir Alfred Pease in 1907.

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