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DEATH OF MR. HENRY PEASE.

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DEATH OF MR. HENRY PEASE. The following is from the Obituary Notices of The Times of Tuesday :— On Monday evening, at 5.50, Mr, Henry Pease, of Stanhope Castle, county of Durham, and Pierremont, Darlington, died at his London residence. Mr. Pease was in his 75th year. He was the son of Edward Pease, the father of railways, and was born at Darlington. After receiving a sound commercial education he was sent to learn the business of a tanner, but did not long follow that occupation. The official records of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, the earliest in the world, show that when quite a youth, and soon after the line was opened, he took an active part in the direction of the affairs of that'undertaking. Since that time he had been on the board of management, and when the Stockton and Darlington was merged in the North-Eastern Railway Company he still retained his seat, and was, in fact, the oldest railway director in the world. While play- ing an important part in the extension of the wonderful railway system which his father had originated, he found time to embark largely in commercial pursuits, to devote himself +0 politics, and to take a conspicuous place as a social reformer, The Pease family "re almost, if not quite, without a parallel in this country in their gigantic industrial operations. They are the owners ot many collieries in South Durham, of vast ironstone mines in Cleve- land, and of lead, workings in the northern dales. The late Mr. Joseph Pease was the founder of Middlesbrough, and,his brother, the deceased, was the founder of Saltbnrn—the watering-place at the ter- minus of the Darlington section of the North-Eastern Railway. Six years ago, when the railway jubilee was celebrated at Darlington, Mr. Pease was the centre of the which marked the first balf Century in the history of railways. Mr. Pease, although largely engaged in mercantile pursuits, lived a varied and eventful life as a poli- tician. a member of the Peace Society, a traveller, a h >r. ilturist, a member *f the Society of Friends, „ii active citizen, taking part is all municipal tr In 1857 he was returned in the Liberal interest as mgmber for South Durham, and eight years artti 'fds voinntarily retired from Parliamentary life in favour I of hi# nephew, Mr. Joseph Whitwell Pease", now the bead of the family, who has since oc< pied the seat. As" representing «be Society of Friends, Mr. Pease, along with the Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, and Robert Charlton, of Bristol, journeyed to Russia in for the purpose of endeavouring to prevent the war which was thfjn threatened between England and that eo«;trv. At Kfc Petersburg they had an inter- view with the latè Cmr, who not only received them kindlv ar i i troutf them to the Empress, but pressed them ton, „-yj,nd visit Moscew. Their efforts were unaA-lUng. although the Czar declared his anxiety to maintain cordial relations between the two co Mrt" Pt.ase Was one of another em- bassy of three who shortly afterwards visited the late Emperor of the French at Paris to urge him to use his influence in calling together a Congress of European nations to promote the interests of peace. Here again the object of their mission was unsuccessful, notwith- standing the cordial sympathy of the Emperor, who received the deputation graciously at the Tuileries. On the death of JbJLs brother Joseph, who was the first Quaker member of Parliament, Mr. Pease suc- ceeded him as President of the Peace Society. He was elected first Mayor of Darlington in 1867, when that town was incorporated. His horticultural taste led him to beautify the principal thoroughfares of his native borough by planting trees in such a way as to give the roads the appearance of boulevards. Mr. Pease was twice married, his first wife being Miss Fell, of the great Quaker family, in Westmoreland. By that marriage there was issue Mr. Henry Fell Pease. Mr. Pease married secondly Miss Mary Lloyd, of Wednesbury, by whom he leaves five children.

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