Jany. 1896 p._ 6.
PEASE, EDWARD (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer).
_b._ Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at
Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected
George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first
rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27
Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson
money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was
constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder
in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death.
_d._ Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. _Annual Monitor_
(1859) 123–64; _S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R.
Stephenson_ (1874) 123–32, 385 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858
p._ 121; _Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888)
487–95.
PEASE, EDWARD (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). _b._ 24 June
1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’
institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly;
chief promoter of British and foreign training college for
female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar
school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at
Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. _d._ Lucerne 13
June 1880. _bur._ Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25
Sept. 1880. _First Report of E. Pease public library_ (1887).
PEASE, HENRY (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ 4 May 1807;
helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in
1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England,
the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied
Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation
from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas
with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war
10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of
Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation
from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society
1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871;
the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway
jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. _d._ while attending
the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May