Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford (25 December 1921 – 4 April 2013) was a British

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and a member of the Pease family. He was the eldest son of

Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971) was a British hereditary peer and member of the Pease family. Family He was the only son of the Liberal peer Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford and his wife Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry ...

and his wife Veronica Margaret Noble. He was educated at

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and the

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. He married 1953, Margaret Theophila Radcliffe Tyndale, (born 1925) daughter of Henry Edmund Guise Tyndale, M.B.E. by Ruth Isabel Walcott Radcliffe. The couple had two daughters, Hon. Joanna Ruth Miriam Pease (born 1959) and Hon. Virginia Claire Margaret Pease (born 1960). He succeeded to the title on his father's death in 1971.

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1921 births 2013 deaths People educated at Eton College People educated at Gordonstoun Alumni of the Open University People educated at West Downs School

Joseph Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...

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