Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford

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Albert Illingworth
Personal details
Born(1860-01-17)17 January 1860
Darlington, County Durham
Died15 February 1943(1943-02-15) (aged 83)
Headlam Hall, Gainford, County Durham
Political partyLiberal
SpouseEthel Havelock-Allen (d. 1941)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford

Liberal cabinet between 1910 and 1916 and also served as Chairman of the BBC
between 1922 and 1926.

Background and education

Pease was born in

Quaker school, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1]

Political career

Pease in 1895

Pease served as Mayor of Darlington from 1889 to 1890. He was elected Member of Parliament for

John Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, between 1893 and 1895 and a junior opposition whip between 1897 and 1905.[citation needed
]

When the Liberals came to power in 1905 under

Postmaster-General in 1916. In 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Gainford, of Headlam in the County of Durham.[7]

He served on the Claims Commission in France in 1915 and between 1917 and 1920 and in Italy between 1918 and 1919[

Justice of the Peace for County Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire
.

Business career

Apart from his political career Pease was Deputy Chairman of the Durham Coal Owners Association and vice-chairman of the Durham District Board (under the Coal Mines Act 1930), a director of Pease and Partners Ltd and other colliery companies, Chairman of Durham Coke Owners, director of the County of London Electric Supply Company, Chairman of South London Electric Supply Corporation, of the Tees Fishery Board, and of the Trustees of the Bowes Museum.[citation needed]

In 1922 he was appointed Chairman of the

Federation of British Industry
.

Papers

Lord Gainford's papers are deposited in Nuffield College, Oxford and consist of diaries, scrap books, press cuttings, correspondence, domestic papers, political papers, official papers, claims commission papers and BBC papers. The main part of the Pease diaries cover the years 1908–1915 and a volume dealing with the years 1908–1910 have been published by Cameron Hazlehurst and Christine Woodland as A Liberal Chronicle: Journals and Papers of J A Pease, 1908–1910; The Historians Press, London, 1994.[citation needed]

Family

Lord Gainford married Ethel, daughter of

Lord Beaumont of Whitley). Lady Gainford died in October 1941. Lord Gainford survived her by two years and died in February 1943, aged 83. He was succeeded in the barony by his son, Joseph. The family seat was Headlam Hall
, Co Durham.

Arms

Coat of arms of Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
Crest
Upon the capital of an Ionic column a dove rising holding in the beak a pea stalk as in the arms all Proper.
Escutcheon
Per fess Azure and Gules a fess nebuly Ermine between two lambs passant in chief Argent and in base upon a mount Proper a dove rising Argent holding in the beak a pea stalk the blossoms and pods also Proper.
Supporters
On either side a barbary wild sheep ram guardant Or.
Motto
Pax Et Spes [8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Pease, Joseph Albert (PS878JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Tipperary South to Tyrone West". Archived from the original on 15 July 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "No. 27320". The London Gazette. 4 June 1901. p. 3770.
  4. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Saffron Walden to Salford West". Archived from the original on 20 December 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "leighrayment.com House of Commons: Rochester to Ryedale". Archived from the original on 19 December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ "No. 28199". The London Gazette. 24 November 1908. p. 8693.
  7. ^ "No. 29913". The London Gazette. 23 January 1917. p. 842.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
  • Joseph Albert Pease, by Cameron Hazlehurst in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 2004–09.

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