Men of Business and Politics. The rise and fall of the Quaker Pease dynasty of North East England, 1700-1943

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Scholarly history of the Pease family of Darlington and North East England from its origins in business as landowners, woollen cloth manufacturers and coal miners. Deals especially with the emergence of the business as a major industrial force in the North East and its diversification into ironstone extraction, limestone quarrying, iron founding, locomotive building and banking; the key role it played in the establishment and operation of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Co; the family's considerable political involvement and influence in the North East; the failure of its bank, J & J W Pease in 1902 and the damage this inflicted on their businesses and more widely; damage inflicted by the so-called Portsmouth Affair. Deals especially with Edward Pease, 1767-1858; Joseph Pease, 1799-1872; Henry Pease, 1807-81; Sir Joseph W Pease, 1823-1903; Joseph A Pease, Lord Gainford