William Edwin Pease

1865 - 1926  (60 years)    Has 38 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	William Edwin Pease
  Birth	3 Jun 1865
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Jan 1926
  Siblings	3 Siblings
  1. William Edwin Pease,   b. 3 Jun 1865   d. 23 Jan 1926  (Age 60 years) + 2. Ernest Herbert Pease,   b. 1871   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Helen Theresa Pease   4. Emily Beaumont Pease
  Person ID	I24602	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Edwin Lucas Pease,   b. 1838, Darlington, Durham, England d. 24 Jan 1889 (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Frances Helen Edwards   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1 Oct 1862
  Family ID	F10454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  MP for Darlington and chairman of Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company an English businessman and Conservative Party politician from County Durham . He was born into the wealthy Pease family of Darlington , Quakers who had prospered through a variety of enterprises including railways, coal mines, woolen manufacturing and a family bank which collapsed in 1902. His father Edwin Lucas Pease (died 1899) was the son of Joseph Pease (1772-1846), an abolitionist and founder of the Peace Society in 1807. He became Chairman of the Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company some times after his father's death in 1889, and was also a director of the Consett Iron Works. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington at a by-election in February 1923 . He replaced his cousin Herbert Pike Pease , who had been ennobled as Baron Daryngton (and who had been elected to succeed his father Arthur ). William Pease held the seat until his death in 1926.