Career
He was a director of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and was responsible for the foundation of the seaside resort of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. He was for a time President of the Peace Society, and in 1854 he visited the Tsar of Russia in an attempt to talk him out of the Crimean War. He was resident at Pierremont, Darlington, and Stanhope Castle, Durham.
Pease was elected Member of Parliament for Durham South in 1857 and held the seat until 1865.
Pease married Anna Fell and they had one son Henry Fell Pease.