Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford

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Jack Pease (1910)

Joseph "Jack" Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford , PC , DL , JP (* 17th January 1860 in Darlington , County Durham , England ; † 15. February 1943 in Headlam Hall, Gainford, County Durham) was a British politician of Liberal party .

Pease was with brief interruptions from 1892 to 1917 deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) . He was, among others 1910-1911 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ) , 1911-1915 Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) and 1916 Postmaster General (Postmaster General) . After 1917 Baron Gainford was raised, he was until his death in 1943 a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) . He served from 1922 to 1926 as chairman of the broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Life

Family background, Darlington Mayor and Member of the House of Commons

Jack Pease (1895)

Joseph "Jack" Albert Pease is one of eight children and the younger second son of the politician Joseph Pease , who was raised to the rank of Baronet Pease, of Hutton Lowcross and Pinchinthorpe, between 1865 and 1903 and his wife Mary Fox. His older brother Alfred Pease was also a member of the lower house from 1885 to 1892 and again between 1897 and 1902 and inherited the title of 2nd Baronet Pease after his father's death in 1903. His other relatives included his uncle Arthur Pease , who was also a member of the House of Commons , and his two sons Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet Pease, of Hammersknott, and Herbert Pease , who was also a member of the House of Commons between 1898 and 1923 and 1st Baronet Pease in 1923 .  Baron Daryngton the house of Lords was.

After attending school graduated Jack Pease studying at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he with a Master of Arts graduated (MA). After that he was director of his family owned mining company Pease & Partners Ltd. active. He began his political career in local politics from 1890 to 1891 as Mayor of Darlington . He was then on July 4, 1892 for the Liberal Party for the first time as a deputy of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this until 1 October 1900 the constituency Tyneside . At the same time he was between 1892 and 1895 private parliamentary secretary of a cabinet member. He was also temporarily Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of County Durham and magistrate (justice of the peace) of County Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire .

After Pease missed re-entry into the House of Commons in the House of Commons election from September 23 to October 24, 1900 with 6730 votes (48.7 percent) against Hugh Crawford Smith (7093 votes, 51.3 percent), he won one the death of the former deputies Armine Wodehouse made necessary by-election (by-election) in the constituency of Saffron Walden elected on May 31, 1901 back to the deputies of the lower house. He represented this constituency until his defeat in the general election on January 15, 1910 . During this time he served in the Campbell-Bannerman cabinet between December 18, 1905 and June 3, 1908 as Lord in the Treasury ( Lord of the Treasury ) . Then he was in the first cabinet Asquith until February 14, 1910 Parliamentary by June 3, 1908 Secretary of the Treasury (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) , and at the same time as the first Parliamentary Secretary (Chief Whip ) the fraction of the Liberal Party in the House. On November 21, 1908 he also became a member of the Privy Council . After the previous MP William Holland was promoted to 1st Baron Rotherham and left the House of Commons, he was re-elected as a Member of the House of Commons in a by-election in the Rotherham constituency on March 1, 1910, to which he now belonged until January 3, 1917 .

Minister, House of Lords and BBC Chairman

Coat of arms of the Baron Gainford

Already on February 14, 1910 Jack Pease had in the first Asquith Cabinet of Herbert Samuel the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ) adopted and practiced this until October 23, 1911 from, prompting Charles Hobhouse became his successor. As part of this cabinet reshuffle, he himself took over the post of Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) from Walter Runciman on October 23, 1911, and held this position until May 25, 1915. In the following second cabinet, Asquith replaced him on January 18 In 1916 Herbert Samuel resigned as Postmaster General and held this post until December 5, 1916.

After his departure from the House of Commons, Pease was raised to a hereditary peer by a letters patent dated January 3, 1917 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Gainford , of Headlam in the County of Durham, which made him a hereditary peer until his death on January 15 , 1917 . February 1943 was a member of the House of Lords . In 1922 he became the first chairman of the broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which had started its broadcasting operations on 18 October 1,922th He held this position until 1926 and was then replaced by George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon .

On October 18, 1886, Joseph "Jack" Albert Pease married Ethel Havelock-Allan, daughter of Lieutenant General and Member of the House of Commons Sir Henry Havelock-Allan and his wife Lady Alice Reynolds-Moreton. From this marriage the two daughters and one son were born. The older daughter Miriam Blanche Pease was an official in the Interior Ministry ( Home Office ) . His only son, Joseph Pease, was a Major in the Lovat Scouts and inherited the title of 2nd Baron Gainford after his death. The younger daughter, Faith Muriel Pease, was married to Michael Beaumont , who was also a member of the House of Commons between 1929 and 1938, and the mother of the Anglican clergyman and politician of the Liberal Party, Timothy Beaumont , who became Baron Beaumont of Whitley in 1967 and, after changing party, was the first member of the 1999 Green Party of England and Wales was a member of the House of Lords.

publication

  • Education and the War , 1914

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cabinet Asquith I
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Gainford
1917-1943 		Joseph Pease
personal data
SURNAME Pease, Jack, 1st Baron Gainford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pease, Joseph Albert, 1st Baron Gainford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Darlington , County Durham , England
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1943
Place of death Headlam Hall, Gainford, County Durham , England