Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton, (7 May 1867 – 10 May 1949), was a British politician.

Biography

Pease was born into a wealthy family, the son of the politician Arthur Pease and his wife Mary Lecky née Pike. His brother was (Sir)

Arthur Francis Pease Sir Arthur Francis Pease, 1st Baronet, DL (11 March 1866 – 23 November 1927) was an English coal owner and public servant. He was a member of the Quaker Pease family of Darlington, born in Hummersknott, a suburb of Darlington, the son of the c ...

. Both were educated at Brighton College. He attended Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Pease served as Liberal Unionist then Unionist MP for

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1898–1923. For some years he was a party whip. From 1915 until 1922 he was

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. He was created a

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lor in 1917.''Who was Who'' On 12 February 1923, he was created Baron Daryngton, ''of Witley in the

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''. For 25 years he was either Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly of the Church of England, the predecessor of the General Synod. The Daryngton peerage passed to the surviving son

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(30 May 1908 – 5 April 1994) on his death, with whom it became extinct.

Marriage and issue

In 1894 he married Alice Luckock; they had two sons and three daughters. Alice died in 1948. Their elder son, Ronald Herbert Pike Peas

was killed on 15 September 1916 during the

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in France. His daughter Ruth Evelyn Pease married

Norman Ernest Archer Norman Ernest Archer Order of St Michael and St George, CMG, OBE (27 August 1892 – 15 February 1970) was a British naval officer and diplomat. Archer was one of two Royal Navy officers stationed with the Russian Black Sea Fleet during the na ...

, son of

Walter Archer Walter Edward Archer C.B. F.R.S.E. (4 July 1855 – 19 August 1917) was a British civil servant, spy and specialist on "the sex life of the salmon". Walter Archer led the Fisheries Division of the UK government's Board of Agriculture and Fis ...

C.B., Assistant Secretary at the government's Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

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* 1867 births 1949 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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