Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, 1st Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1903.
Sir Joseph Pease
"Peace" Pease as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, October 1887
Joseph Pease was a British proponent and supporter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, one of first public railway systems in the world, and was the first Quaker permitted to take his seat
Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet
…British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1903. Pease was a member of the Darlington Pease family, being the son of Joseph Pease and his wife Emma Gurney, daughter of Joseph Gurney of Lakenham Grove, Norwich. His father was a Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer of Darlington…
Joseph Pease
Statue of Pease in Darlington town centre