PEASE, Guy Edward Chaloner MBE (1922-2023)

[colinp]

Obit in the Times 1 Feb 2023 -  Guy Pease obituary | Register | The Times

He was the son of Maj Herbert Ernest PEASE DSO (c1889-1959) and Hon Cynthia Frances Charlotte CHALONER (1895-1937) d of 1st Baron Gisborough (1856-1938).  He m (1) 1947 (div 1970) Eileen Joan COSGROVE (d 2019) and (2) 1971 Robin ROOT (d 2020)

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Guy Pease obituary

Indomitable fighter pilot shot down over France in 1943 who escaped from a military hospital with a one-legged New Zealander

....Guy Edward Chaloner Pease was born at Gisborough Hall in North Yorkshire in 1922, the eldest son of Cynthia Chaloner, who was the daughter of Lord Gisborough, and Major Herbert Pease, who had been highly decorated on the Western Front. Guy had two brothers, Michael and Melik....

After the war, he studied Arabic and returned to Sudan, where he became Lands Inspector for Khartoum Province for ten years from 1946 and was appointed MBE....

He was employed by Cape Industries as a personnel manager in 1957 and later moved to Bovis. In 1969 he joined Spencer Stuart Management Consultants, working in London and Sydney. Five years later he set up his own personnel consulting business in Australia, where he remained for the rest of his life.

He was married twice. His first wife was Eileen Cosgrove, whom he met in Jerusalem in 1946 while he was learning Arabic. Her father was a senior figure in the Palestine Police Force. They had three sons: Peter, who runs an estate agency; Nick, a copywriter, author and musician; and Toby, a film and television producer. The marriage was dissolved in 1970.

A year later he married Robin Root, whom he had met when she was working as social secretary to the wife of the Australian prime minister William McMahon. They had a son, Jonathan, who is a director, film-maker and the co-owner of a media group.

Eileen died in 2019, Robin in 2020. His sons survive him....

Shortly before he turned 100, Pease flew unaccompanied to London, where he celebrated his birthday at the RAF Club in Piccadilly. He was the last survivor of 268 Squadron.

Guy Pease MBE, wartime pilot and business consultant, was born on September 2, 1922. He died on December 28, 2022, aged 100

[Henry W]

I will add this death to the 2022 Centenarian deaths in due course.

The surname PEASE piqued my interest - two families of Baronets have this name, and they are related to each other I think, and there are related peerages. Burke's seems to take the lineage back into the 18th century, so I wonder if there is a connection.

I offer the following (mostly sourced from Ancestry Trees) if it might link him to those families as they are based in/around Darlington as well.

Thomas PEASE (18 May 1796 Darlington, Durham - 17 Sept 1849 Darlington, Durham) m Margaret WATKIN (1805 Richmond, Yorks - 26 Sept 1890) and had issue at least one son:

Edward Thomas PEASE (4 Feb 1827 Darlington, Durham - 1897 Darlington, Durham) m 1853 Mary Anne FRIEND (1831 - ) and had issue 5 sons & 2 daus, including:

Alfred John PEASE (1859 Darlington, Durham  - 1934 Tonbridge, Kent) m 1888 in New Zealand to Emilie Marie WEIDNER (1866 Victoria, Australia - 27 Dec 1934 Tonbridge, Kent), had issue 2 sons & 1 dau, including:

Herbert John PEASE (10 Aug 1859 New Zealand - 27 Aug 1959 Kenya) m 1st 1921 Hon Cynthia Frances Charlotte CHALONER (1895 - 1937) and had issue 3 sons, and 2nd 1938 in Sudan to Sylvia Clare GURNEY (1908 - ?), no issue.

Issue included  Guy Edward Chaloner PEASE, whom we treat.

[S R Eglesfield]

There is indeed a connection to the two Pease baronets, and to the extant Barons Gainford and the extinct Barons Daryngton and Wardington.

Thomas PEASE (18 V 1796 - 17 IX 1849) was a grandson of Edward PEASE (26 IX 1711 - 14 XI 1785), who was the great-great grandfather of Sir Joseph Whitwell PEASE, 1st Bt, MP (23 VI 1828 - 23 VI 1903), whose own second son was Joseph Albert ("Jack") PEASE, 1st Baron Gainford (17 I 1860 - 15 II 1943). Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease's brother, Arthur PEASE, MP (12 IX 1837 - 27 VIII 1898), was the father of Sir Arthur Francis PEASE, 1st Bt (11 III 1866 - 23 XI 1927) and Herbert Pike PEASE, 1st Baron Daryngton (7 V 1867 - 10 V 1949).  Edward PEASE (26 IX 1711 - 14 XI 1785) was also the great-great-great grandfather of John William Beaumont PEASE, 1st Baron Wardington (4 VII 1869 - 7 VIII 1950).