William Edwin Pease (3 June 1865 – 23 January 1926) was an Englishbusinessman andConservative Party politician fromCounty Durham. Pease was educated atClifton College[1] andTrinity College, Cambridge.[2]
He was born into the wealthyPease family ofDarlington,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 grandson ofJoseph Pease (1772–1846), anabolitionist and founder of thePeace Society. He became Chairman of theCleveland Bridge & Engineering Company some times after his father's death in 1889, and was also a director of theConsett Iron Works.[3]
He was elected asmember of parliament (MP) forDarlington at aby-election in February 1923. He replaced his cousinHerbert Pike Pease, who had been ennobled asBaron Daryngton (and who had been elected to succeed his fatherArthur). William Pease held the seat until his death in 1926.
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