Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford
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Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford of Headlam PC JP DL, (17 January 1860 – 15 February 1943) was an English businessman and Liberal politician.
Born in Darlington (a Darlington Pease), the second son of Sir Joseph W. Pease, 1st Bart, (MP, Hutton Hall Guisborough), he was educated at Tottenham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. His elder brother was the MP Alfred E. Pease.
In 1886, he married Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, Bt. and they had one son, Joseph and a daughter, Faith (who married Michael Wentworth Beaumont). He served as Mayor of Darlington from 1889 and was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for the Tyneside Division, Northumberland, 1892-1900; for Saffron Walden, Essex, 1901-1910, and for Rotherham, West Yorkshire, 1910-1916.
He was Private Secretary (unpaid) to John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1893-1895, a Junior Opposition Whip, 1897-1905; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1905-1908; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, 1908-1910; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1910-1911; President of the Board of Education, 1911-1915; Postmaster-General, 1916. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1908. He was raised to the peerage in 1917 as Baron Gainford of Headlam.
He served on the Claims Commission in France, 1915, 1917-1920, and in Italy, 1918-1919; Chairman of the British Broadcasting Co. Ltd, 1922-1926, Vice-Chairman, 1926-1932; President of Federation of British Industry, 1927-1928.
He was Deputy Chairman of the Durham Coal Owners Association and Vice-Chairman of the Durham District Board (under Mines Act 1930); Director of Pease and Partners, Ltd; and other Colliery Companies; Chairman of Durham Coke Owners; Director of the County of London Electric Supply Company, Ltd; Chairman of South London Electric Supply Coy; late Chairman of the Tees Fishery Board; Chairman of the Trustees of the Bowes Museum.
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