Arthur Pease (politician)

Arthur Pease, DL (12 September 1837 – 27 August 1898) was a British politician, son of Joseph Pease (1799–1872).

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby from 1880 to 1885, and Liberal Unionist MP for Darlington from 1895 until his death in 1898, aged 60.

He was a member of the Royal Commission on Opium in India from 1893–95.

He married on 14 April 1864 to Mary Lecky Pike. They had two sons, Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet (1866–1927) and Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton, Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), and a daughter Winifred Pike Pease, who married in 1903 Roger William Bulwer Jenyns, of Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire; they were parents of the art historian Soame Jenyns.[1]

References

  1. Burke's Landed Gentry, 17th edition, 1952, ed. L. G. Pine, 'Jenyns of Bottisham Hall' pedigree
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Henry Gladstone
Member of Parliament for Whitby
18801885
Succeeded by
Ernest Beckett
Preceded by
Theodore Fry
Member of Parliament for Darlington
1895–1898
Succeeded by
Herbert Pike Pease


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