Joseph Pease (India reformer)
Joseph Pease (1772–1846) was an English
Life
He was a son of Joseph Pease (1737–1808) and his wife Mary Richardson, and a younger brother of Edward Pease. His father was a woollen manufacturer of Darlington, as was his brother Edward Pease, and he went into the same business.[1][2][3]
Sometimes referred to as Joseph Pease of Feethams, he is often confused with his nephew Joseph Pease, the first Quaker Member of Parliament.[4] He made his name as an Indian reformer, and his branch of the family supported abolitionism in the form given to it by William Lloyd Garrison.[5] ("Joseph Pease of Darlington" may also refer to his father or nephew.)
Pease opposed the Corn Laws from 1815.[6] He was one of the founders of the Peace Society in 1817.[2] During the 1830s he became active in involving others in "India reform", which meant here commercial solutions to driving out the use of slaves in commodity production, as well as the abolition of Indian slavery. He found in George Thompson a speaker who would propagate this line. He drew in William Allen, and by the end of the 1830s the Aborigines' Protection Society was considering the matter.[6]
The British India Society (BIS) founded in 1839 was short-lived, not surviving in activity beyond 1843, but Pease was a central figure in it. Its direction, further than support of Garrison, was to promote cotton production in India, seek allies among moderate
Pease and Thompson put emphasis on the BIS as an ally of the
Family
Pease married Elizabeth Beaumont, who died in 1824. His second wife was Anne Bradshaw, whom he married in 1831.[4] John Beaumont Pease (1803–1873) and Elizabeth Pease Nichol were children of the first marriage.[13]
Notes and references
- ^ Maberly Phillips (1894). A History of Banks, Bankers and Banking in Northumberland, Durham, and North Yorkshire illustrating the commercial development of the North of England, from 1755 to 1894. p. 348 – via archive.org.
- ^ a b c Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55204. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ ISBN 978-1-108-06292-3.
- ^ Turley 2004, p. 81.
- ^ a b Turley 2004, pp. 122–3.
- ^ Turley 2004, p. 98.
- ISBN 0-8122-3467-7.
- ISBN 978-0-520-02927-9.
- ISBN 978-1-134-79881-0.
- ^ Turley 2004, p. 124.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18541. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0-8135-2317-0.
- Turley, David (14 January 2004). The Culture of English Antislavery, 1780-1860. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-97745-1.
Further reading
- John Hyslop Bell (1891). British Folks and British India Fifty Years Ago: Joseph Pease and His Contemporaries. John Heywood.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Pease, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.