Arthur Pease (politician)

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

Biography

He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Whitby from 1880 to 1885, and a 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 to 1895.

He married on 14 April 1864 to Mary Lecky Pike. They had two sons, Sir Arthur Pease (1866–1927), Herbert Pease (1867–1949), and one daughter named Winifred Pike Pease, who married in 1903 to 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

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Arthur Pease

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Henry Gladstone	Member of Parliament for Whitby 1880–1885	Succeeded by Ernest Beckett
Preceded by Theodore Fry	Member of Parliament for Darlington 1895–1898	Succeeded by Herbert Pike Pease