Baron Gainford, of Headlam in the County of Durham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1917 for the Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician Jack Pease. He notably served as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to 1915. Pease was the second son of Sir Joseph W. Pease, 1st Baronet, and the grandson of Joseph Pease, while Arthur Pease was his uncle and Sir Arthur Francis Pease, 1st Baronet, and Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton

Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton

Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton was a British politician.Pease was born into a wealthy family, the son of the politician Arthur Pease and his wife Mary Lecky née Pike. His brother was Arthur Francis Pease. Both were educated at Brighton College...

, his first cousins. the title is held by the first Baron's grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1971. He is a former member of the London County Council

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 and of the Greater London Council

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. As a descendant of Sir Joseph W. Pease, 1st Baronet, he is also in remainder to this title.

Barons Gainford (1917)

• Joseph Albert "Jack" Pease, 1st Baron Gainford (1860–1943)
• Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford
  Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford
  Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford was the second Baron Gainford.He was the only son of the Liberal peer Joseph Albert Pease, 1st Baron Gainford and his wife Ethel Havelock-Allan, a daughter of Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, Bt.. He married 1921, Veronica Margaret Noble, daughter of Sir George...
  
   (1889–1971)
• Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford
  Joseph Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford
  Joseph Edward Pease, 3rd Baron Gainford succeeded to the family honours upon the death of his father in .He is the eldest son of Joseph Pease, 2nd Baron Gainford and his wife Veronica Margaret Noble. He married 1953, Margaret Theophila Radcliffe Tyndale, daughter of Henry Edmund Guise Tyndale,...
  
   (b. 1921)

The heir presumptive

Heir Presumptive

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 is the present holder's younger brother the Hon. George Pease (b. 1926)

See also

• Pease Baronets of Hutton Lowcross
  Pease Baronets
  There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Pease family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extant....
  
  
• Pease Baronets of Hammersknott
  Pease Baronets
  There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Pease family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are extant....
  
  
• Baron Daryngton
  Baron Daryngton
  Baron Daryngton, of Witley in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1923 for Herbert Pease, who had previously represented Darlington in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist...
  
  
• Pease family
  Pease family (Darlington)
  The Pease family was a prominent English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington and County Durham and descended from Joseph Pease of Darlington, son of Edward Pease . They were 'one of the great Quaker industrialist families of the nineteenth century, who played a leading role in...