Sir Arthur Francis Pease, 1st Baronet,
DL (11 March 1866 – 23 November 1927) was an
English
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coal
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owner and public servant.
He was a member of the
Quaker Pease family The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington, County Durham, and North Yorkshire, descended from Edward Pease of Darlington (1711–1785).
They were 'one of the great Quaker industrialist families of the ...
of
Darlington, born in
Hummersknott
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, a suburb of Darlington, the son of the coal owner and
Member of Parliament
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Arthur Pease, and the brother of the politician
Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton. He was educated at
Brighton College
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, and in 1888 joined the family firm, Pease & Partners Ltd, of which he later became chairman.
Pease eventually also became chairman of Middlesbrough Estate Ltd, North-Eastern Improved Dwellings Company, William Whitwell & Co, and the Durham & North Yorkshire Public House Trust, and a director of the
North Eastern Railway Company/
London and North Eastern Railway Company,
Lloyds Bank
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, Horden Collieries Ltd, the
Forth Bridge
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Railway Company, the
National Benzole Company, and a number of others.
Pease was appointed a
deputy lieutenant of
County Durham in December 1906 and
High Sheriff of Durham for 1920–21. He became prominent as a representative of the employers in negotiations with the
Miners' Federation of Great Britain
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and favoured hard responses to worker militancy. He was a member of a number of government committees. He served as
Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty
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from 1918 to 1919, and for this he was created a
baronet
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in the
1920 Birthday Honours
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.
He rented
Middleton Lodge in North Yorkshire, where he lived until his death.
Pease died of a
cerebral haemorrhage during a board meeting of Horden Collieries Ltd on 23 November 1927. On his death he was succeeded by his only son, Richard Arthur Pease. He also had three daughters, the youngest of whom, Elizabeth Frances, married Sir
Frank O'Brien Wilson, a member of the
Legislative Council of Kenya.
Footnotes
References
*Biography: ''
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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article by '' M. W. Kirby, 'Pease, Sir Arthur Francis, first baronet (1866–1927)’ Oxford University Press, 200
Retrieved 31 October 2007.
*Obituary: ''
The Times
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'', 24 November 1927
1866 births
1927 deaths
Arthur
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