Joseph Walker Pease Explained

Joseph Walker Pease
Office:Member of Parliament
for Kingston upon Hull
Term Start:24 October 1873
Term End:7 February 1874
Alongside:Charles Morgan Norwood
Predecessor:Charles Morgan Norwood
James Clay
Successor:Charles Morgan Norwood
Charles Wilson
Birth Date:1820
Nationality:British
Party:Conservative

Joseph Walker Pease (1820 - 22 November 1882) was a Conservative Party politician.

Despite his Quaker beliefs, Pease was an enthusiast for the Volunteer movement and on 11 August 1860 was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 1st (Consolidated) Battalion, East Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers. Until it built Londesborough Barracks in Kingston upon Hull as its drill hall in 1864, the battalion drilled at the Cyclops Foundry, in which Pease had a commercial interest.[1] [2] [3] [4]

He was elected Conservative MP for Kingston upon Hull at a by-election in 1873 but lost the seat very soon after at the 1874 general election.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Army List.
  2. Ian F.W. Beckett, Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, ., p. 29.
  3. R.W.S. Norfolk, Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteer Forces of the East Riding 1689–1908, York: East Yorkshire Local History Society, 1965, pp. 36–7.
  4. Ray Westlake, Tracing the Rifle Volunteers, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010,, p. 253.
  5. Book: Craig. F. W. S.. F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885. 1977. Macmillan Press. London. 978-1-349-02349-3. 1st. e-book.