PEASE, Henry (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. 4 May 1807; helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in 1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England, the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war 10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society 1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871; the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. d. while attending the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May 1881. bur. at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13 Aug. 1881. Fortunes made in business i 331–78 (1884); I.L.N. xxiv 201 (1854) portrait; J. Sturge’s Some account of a deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia (1854); London Society (1881) 431–46.
PEASE, John (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). b. Darlington 1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S. of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825; a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great Ayton, Yorks. 1841. d. Darlington 29 July 1868. Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 495–500.
PEASE, Joseph (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen manufacturer). b. Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member, objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.; assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books; had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy 1841. d. Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington unveiled 1875. J. H. Bell’s British folks and British India (1891) 39, 42, 131; Joseph Pease, a memoir (1872); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 503–7; I.L.N. lx 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) portrait; Leisure Hour xxi 375 portrait; J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway system (1875); Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp. 321, 328, view of statue.
PEASE, Joseph Walker (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866). b. Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1 East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull 7 Feb. 1874. d. Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.
PEAT, David. b. Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy 2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29 July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard 1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug. 1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. end of Dec. 1880.
PEBODY, Charles (son of Charles Pebody). b. Watford or Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882; wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post. d. Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. bur. Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p. 5, 4 Nov. p. 4.
PECHELL, Sir George Richard Brooke, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). b. London 30 June 1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820; commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822; gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton 13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852, and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820. d. 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.
PECHELL, Horace Robert (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone, London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). b. 12 May 1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.
PECHEY, William Crisp. b. Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838; educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868 to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji islands 1871. d. at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st. Walthamstow 22 June 1871. Medical times and gazette ii 236 (1871).
PECK, Charles. b. Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6 years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow, Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley; for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s horses 1863. d. Malton 16 Jany. 1867. bur. Malton 21 Jany. Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp. 85–6.