List of Political Families in The United Kingdom - Peases

Peases

• Joseph Pease (1799–1872), Quaker railway company promoter and industrialist, MP for South Durham, 1832–1841
• Henry Pease (1807–1881), railway owner and peace campaigner, younger brother of Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for South Durham, 1857–1859
  • Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, first baronet (1828–1903), Quaker industrialist and banker, son of Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for South Durham, 1865–1885 and for Barnard Castle, 1885–1903
  • Edmund Backhouse (1824–1906), Quaker banker, second cousin, wife's nephew, and business associate of Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for Darlington, 1867–1880
  • Sir Theodore Fry, first baronet (1836–1912), Quaker industrialist, married to Sophia Pease (niece of Joseph and Henry Pease), Liberal MP for Darlington, 1880–1895
  • Arthur Pease (1837–1898), coal and ironstone mine-owner, son of Joseph Pease, Liberal MP for Whitby, 1880–1885 and for Darlington, 1895–1898
  • Henry Fell Pease (1838–1896), coal and ironstone mine-owner, son of Henry Pease, Liberal MP for Cleveland division of the North Riding, 1885–1896
    • Sir Alfred Edward Pease, second baronet (1857–1939), politician and sportsman, elder son of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, Liberal MP for York, 1885–1892 and for the Cleveland division of the North Riding from 1897–1902
    • Joseph Albert Pease, first Baron Gainford (1860–1943), younger son of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, Liberal MP for Tynemouth from 1892–1900, Saffron Walden from 1900 – January 1910 and Rotherham from March 1910–1916. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, President of the Board of Education and Postmaster General.
    • Herbert Pike Pease first Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), son of Arthur Pease, MP for Darlington, sitting as a Liberal Unionist and then a Unionist 1898-1910, as a Conservative 1910-1923, and in the House of Lords 1923-1949.
    • William Edwin Pease (1865–1926), industrialist, Conservative MP for Darlington, 1923–1926
      • Michael Beaumont (1903–1958), soldier, son-in-law of Joseph Albert Pease, Conservative MP for Aylesbury, 1929–1938
        • Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford (born 1921), grandson of Joseph Albert Pease, Conservative member of the House of Lords 1971-1999
        • Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (1928–2008), clergyman, publisher and politician, grandson of Joseph Albert Pease, Liberal, Liberal Democrat and from 1999 Green Party member of the House of Lords 1967-2008