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    Saturday 13 June 1857. Edward Pease, National Portrait Gallery, London Claus Bernet (2009). "Edward Pease (railway pioneer)". In Bautz, Traugott (ed...
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    public railway systems in the world, and was the first Quaker permitted to take his seat in Parliament. Joseph Pease joined his father Edward and other...
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  • Edward Pease may refer to: Ed Pease (Edward Allan Pease, born 1951), former US congressman from Indiana Edward Pease (railway pioneer) (1767–1858), railway...
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  • The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington, County Durham, and North Yorkshire, descended from Edward Pease of...
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  • Pease, 1st Baronet Joachim Pease (1842-unknown), Medal of Honor recipient John Pease (disambiguation), several people Joseph Pease (railway pioneer)...
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  • Henry Pease is the name of: Henry R. Pease (1835–1907), U.S. Senator from Mississippi Henry Pease (MP) (1807–1881), son of railway pioneer, Edward Pease Henry...
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    father was a Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer of Darlington, and M.P. for South Durham from 1832 to 1841. Pease was educated at the Quaker run Lawrence...
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    Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson was said to favour the railway, and the Quaker Edward Pease supported it at a public meeting in Darlington on 13 November...
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  • Vanderbilt family (category American railway entrepreneurs)
    Pease, 4th Baronet (born 1958) Nichola Pease (born 1961) Derrick Alix Pease (1927–1998) Jonathan Edward Pease (born 1952) Cornelius Jeremiah Vanderbilt...
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    Sir Alfred Edward Pease, 2nd Baronet (29 June 1857 – 27 April 1939), was a British Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885...
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  • (d. 1867). May – George Hennet, English railway contractor (d. 1857). June 22 – Joseph Pease, English railway promoter (d. 1872). Years in rail transport...
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  • Southern Railway 1918–1920. December 20 – David Blyth Hanna, first president of Canadian National Railway (d. 1938). July 31 – Edward Pease, first promoter...
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  • A railway pioneer is someone who has made a significant contribution to the historical development of the railway (US: railroad). This definition includes...
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    Darlington (category Railway towns in England)
    (1767–1858) – Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer Joseph Pease (1799–1872) – Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer, first Quaker MP Julie Rayne – singer...
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    John Dent Dent (1880–94) Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, Bart (1895–1902) Viscount Ridley (1902–04) Sir Edward Grey, Bart (1904–05) John Lloyd Wharton (1906–12)...
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    Locomotion No. 1 (category Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway)
    Active) is an early steam locomotive that was built in 1825 by the pioneering railway engineers George and Robert Stephenson at their manufacturing firm...
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    idea did give rise in time, and with the aid of Edward Pease, to the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which served the same purpose of transporting coal...
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  • Headmaster of Grove House School, anti-slavery campaigner Joseph Pease (railway pioneer) (1799-1872), first Quaker MP permitted to take his seat in parliament...
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  • Thomas Richardson (businessman) (category Stockton and Darlington Railway)
    from Stamford Hill, London, was the cousin of Edward Pease. Pease proposed the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR) in 1818, and Richardson invested in the...
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    Robert Stephenson (category British railway pioneers)
    and the scheme was promoted by Edward Pease at a meeting in November. A private bill for a Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was presented to Parliament...
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    the mining firm Pease & Partners, and as a director of the North Eastern Railway Company. Dale owes his main distinction to his pioneer application of...
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    worked closely with other leading abolitionists: Thomas Clarkson, Elizabeth Pease and Joseph Sturge. When women were prevented from participating in the World...
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  • Edison pioneer J Bill Joy Unix - Sun Microsystems K Rudolf Kálmán Inventor of the Kalman filter Kálmán Kandó Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification...
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    George Anson Pease (September 30, 1830 – January 22, 1919) was a steamboat captain in the Pacific Northwest region on the United States, who was active...
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    Fry married Sophia Pease (1837–1897), a philanthropist and political activist and granddaughter of the railway pioneer Edward Pease. After her death, he...
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    4-foot-8+1⁄2-inch (1.435 m) standard gauge used by most of the world's railways. Pioneered by Stephenson, rail transport was one of the most important technological...
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    continued on railways in Britain until the 1960s.). The S&DRs chief engineer Timothy Hackworth under the guidance of its principal funder Edward Pease, hosted...
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  • American Tobacco Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer at Lloyd's of London Sir Arthur Pease, Bt. (1866–1927), coal magnate, Second Civil Lord of...
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    railway pioneers Timothy Hackworth, Edward Pease, George Stephenson and Robert Stephenson were all actively involved with developing the railways in tandem...
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    Alan and Lady (Nora) Barlow (née Darwin), see above. R. Sebastian 'Bas' Pease (1922–2004), physicist, Director of Culham Laboratory for Plasma Physics...
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