Joseph Walker Pease (1820 - 22 November 1882) was a
Conservative Party
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politician.
Despite his
Quaker
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beliefs, Pease was an enthusiast for the
Volunteer movement
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and on 11 August 1860 was appointed
Lieutenant-Colonel
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in command of the
1st (Consolidated) Battalion, East Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. Until it built
Londesborough Barracks
Londesborough Barracks is a military installation in Kingston upon Hull, England.
History
The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st Yorkshire (East Riding) Rifle Volunteer Corps and was completed in 1864. The barracks were name ...
in
Kingston upon Hull
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as its drill hall in 1864, the battalion drilled at the Cyclops Foundry, in which Pease had a commercial interest.
[Ray Westlake, ''Tracing the Rifle Volunteers'', Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, , p. 253.]
He was elected Conservative
MP for
Kingston upon Hull
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at a
by-election in 1873 but lost the seat very soon after at the
1874 general election.
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1868–1874
1820 births
1882 deaths
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