Arthur Francis Pease
Sir Arthur Francis Pease (1866–1927), coal owner and industrialist, chairman of Pease and Partners
1866 born at Hummersknott, Darlington, the eldest son of Arthur Pease, coal owner and MP, and his wife, Mary Lecky, daughter of Ebenezer Pike of Bessborough, Co. Cork.
Educated at Brighton College, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and received a business training in Darlington with the family colliery concern, Pease and Partners.
1889 married Laura Matilda Ethelwyn Allix, of Swaffham Prior House, Cambridgeshire.
Pease sold his interest in the family bank, J. and J. W. Pease, to his uncle, Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease not long before the failure of that bank in 1902.
1906 become chairman and managing director of Pease and Partners
Also chairman or director of numerous coalmining and other industrial undertakings in the north of England; he was also a director of Lloyds Bank and of the London and North Eastern Railway Company.
1918 Was second civil lord of the Admiralty to 1919
1920 Created a baronet.
1927 Died at his home near Darlington
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography of Sir Arthur Francis Pease, ODNB