Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford
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Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971) was a British
hereditary peer The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of April 2025, there are 800 hereditary peers: 30 dukes (including six royal dukes), 34 marquesses, 189 earls, 108 viscounts, and 439 barons (not counting subsidiary ...
and member of the
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 ni ...
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Family

He was the only son of the Liberal peer
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943), known as Jack Pease, was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a member of H. H. Asquith's Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served ...
and his wife Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet He married 1921, Veronica Margaret Noble, (died 1995) daughter of Sir George John William Noble, 2nd Baronet. Their children were: *
Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford (25 December 1921 – 4 April 2013) was a British hereditary peer and a member of the Pease family (Darlington), Pease family. He was the eldest son of Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford and his wife Veronica ...
(1921-2013) * George Pease, 4th Baron Gainford (1926-2022) * John Michael Pease (1930–2007)


Career

Pease was educated at
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and reached the rank of
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in the British Army. He fought in both world wars before becoming Baron in 1943. He died in September 1971.


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