Modern English biography

Aug. 1881. _Fortunes made in business i_ 331–78 (1884); _I.L.N. xxiv_ 201 (1854) _portrait_; _J. Sturge’s Some account of a deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia_ (1854); _London Society_ (1881) 431–46. PEASE, JOHN (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ Darlington 1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S. of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825; a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great Ayton, Yorks. 1841. _d._ Darlington 29 July 1868. _Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends_ (1888) 495–500. PEASE, JOSEPH (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen manufacturer). _b._ Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member, objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.; assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books; had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy