William Edwin Pease (3 June 1865 – 23 January 1926) was an

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and Conservative Party politician from County Durham. Pease was educated at

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and

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. He was born into the wealthy

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of Darlington,

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who had prospered through a variety of enterprises including railways, coal mines, woolen manufacturing and a family bank which collapsed in 1902. His father Edwin Lucas Pease (died 1899) was the grandson of

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(1772–1846), an

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and founder of the

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. He became Chairman of the

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some times after his father's death in 1889, and was also a director of the Consett Iron Works.About the Victoria County History
/ref> He was elected as

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(MP) for Darlington at a by-election in February 1923. He replaced his cousin Herbert Pike Pease, who had been ennobled as

Baron Daryngton Baron Daryngton, of Witley in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 February 1923 for Herbert Pike Pease, who had previously represented Darlington in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. He ...

(and who had been elected to succeed his father

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). William Pease held the seat until his death in 1926.

References

* * at Leigh Rayment's peerage pages

External links

* People educated at Clifton College 1865 births 1926 deaths

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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub