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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