Baron Gainford,of Headlam in the County Palatine of Durham,is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 3 January 1917 for the Liberal politician Jack Pease,a member of the Darlington Pease family. He notably served as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to 1915. Pease was the second son of Sir Joseph Pease,1st Baronet,and the grandson of Joseph Pease,while Arthur Pease was his uncle and Sir Arthur Pease,1st Baronet,Beaumont Pease,1st Baron Wardington,and Herbert Pease,1st Baron Daryngton,were his first cousins. The third baron was a former member of the London County Council and of the Greater London Council. As of 2013 the title is held by his younger brother,the fourth baron,an architect and town planner;County Planning Officer for Ross and Cromarty 1967–1975 and Scottish Office Inquiry Reporter 1978–1993.
Edward Marjoribanks,2nd Baron Tweedmouth,,was a moderate British Liberal Party statesman who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1894 when he inherited his peerage and then sat in the House of Lords. He served in various capacities in the Liberal governments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Alexander William Charles Oliphant Murray,1st Baron Murray of Elibank,called The Master of Elibank between 1871 and 1912,was a Scottish nobleman and Liberal politician. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury under H. H. Asquith between 1910 and 1912,when he was forced to resign after being implicated in the Marconi scandal.
Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth,1st Baron Harmsworth LLD,was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1915 and as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1919 and 1922.
Joseph Pease may refer to:
Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease,1st Baronet was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1903.
Joseph Pease,2nd Baron Gainford (1889–1971) was a British hereditary peer and a member of the Pease family.
Sir Alfred Edward Pease,2nd Baronet,was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1902 and who became a pioneer settler of British East Africa,now Kenya.
Baron Daryngton,of Witley in the County of Surrey,was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 February 1923 for Herbert Pike Pease,who had previously represented Darlington in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist. He was the younger son of Arthur Pease and the younger brother of Sir Arthur Pease,1st Baronet,while Sir Joseph Pease,1st Baronet,was his uncle and Jack Pease,1st Baron Gainford,his first cousin. The peerage became extinct on the death of his son,the 2nd Baron,in 1994.
Pease,in Middle English,was a noun referring to the vegetable pea;see that article for its etymology. The word survives into modern English in pease pudding.
The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington,County Durham,and North Yorkshire,descended from Edward Pease of Darlington (1711–1785).
Richard Knight Causton,1st Baron Southwark PC,DL was an English stationer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1910. In the same year he was raised to the peerage and sat in the House of Lords.
Philip James Stanhope,1st Baron Weardale,was a British Liberal Party politician and philanthropist.
George Whiteley,1st Baron Marchamley PC was a British Conservative turned Liberal Party politician. He served as Chief Whip between 1905 and 1908 in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith.
There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Pease family,both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extant.
The Liberal government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1905 and ended in 1915 consisted of two ministries:the first led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman and the final three by H. H. Asquith.
Edward Strachey,1st Baron Strachie,PC,known as Sir Edward Strachey,Bt,between 1901 and 1911,was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915.
The 1910 Rotherham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Rotherham in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1 March 1910.
Headlam Hall is a 17th-century country house at The Green,Headlam,near Gainford,County Durham,England. It is a Grade II* listed building now in use as a hotel and country club.
