Joseph Walker Pease

Joseph Walker Pease
MP
Member of Parliament
for Kingston upon Hull
In office
24 October 1873 – 7 February 1874
Preceded byCharles Morgan Norwood
James Clay
Succeeded byCharles Morgan Norwood
Charles Wilson
Personal details
Born1820
Died (aged 62)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative

Joseph Walker Pease (1820 - 22 November 1882)[1] 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.[2][3][4][5]

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.[6]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)
  2. ^ Army List.
  3. ^ Ian F.W. Beckett, Riflemen Form: A Study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement 1859–1908, Aldershot: Ogilby Trusts, 1982, ISBN 0 85936 271 X. , p. 29.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Ray Westlake, Tracing the Rifle Volunteers, Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84884-211-3, p. 253.
  6. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.