The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington, County Durham, and North Yorkshire, descended from Edward Pease of Darlington (1711–1785). They were 'one of the great Quaker industrialist families of the nineteenth century, who played a leading role in philanthropic and humanitarian interests'. They were heavily involved in woollen manufacturing, banking, railways, locomotives, mining, and politics. * Edward Pease (1767–1858), railway promoter and woollen manufacturer. * Joseph Pease (1772–1846), a founder of the Peace Society in 1817 and abolitionist.