Arthur Pease,
DL (12 September 1837 – 27 August 1898) was a British politician. He was the son of
Joseph Pease.
Biography
He was a
Liberal Member of Parliament for
Whitby
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From the Middle Ages, Whitby ...
from 1880 to 1885, and a
Liberal Unionist MP for
Darlington
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from 1895 until his death in 1898, aged 60.
He was a member of the
Royal Commission on Opium in
India
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from 1893 to 1895.
He married on 14 April 1864 to Mary Lecky Pike. They had two sons,
Sir Arthur Pease (1866–1927),
Herbert Pease (1867–1949), and one daughter named Winifred Pike Pease, who married in 1903 to Roger William Bulwer Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire. They were parents of the art historian
Soame Jenyns.
[Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, 1952, ed. L. G. Pine, 'Jenyns of Bottisham Hall' pedigree]
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1837 births
1898 deaths
Deputy lieutenants of Durham
Arthur
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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1880–1885
Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1895–1900
British businesspeople in the coal industry
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