“ He died at Darlington on the 31st of July 1858. His second son, Joseph Pease (1799–1872) , who assisted his father in his railway enterprises, was M P. for South Durham from 1832 to 1841, being the first Quaker to sit in parliament. He was interested in collieries, quarries and ironstone mines in Durham and North Yorkshire, as well as in cotton and woollen manufactures, and he was active in educational and philanthropic work. ”