PEASE

Edward (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer). b. Darling ton 31 May 1767; in his father’s busine at Darling ton 1782; retired from the busine about 1817; projected George Stephen son’s railway from Darling ton to Stock ton, first rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27 Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephen son money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death. d. North gate, Darling ton 31 July 1858. Annual Monitor (1859) 123–64; S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R. Stephen son (1874) 123–32, 385 portrait ; I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858 p. 121; Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 487–95.