taken over by his second son Joseph Pease. Joseph, like his uncle and namesake, was prominent in the anti-slavery movement and in prison reform. In 1832 he became the first Quaker to sit in Parliament. Edward Pease had extensive connections among the Quaker banking community, which helped considerably in promoting the railway. He also invested strongly in 1823 in Stephenson's new company for building locomotives in Newcastle upon Tyne. He retired from business in 1833, but not from religious life as a Quaker. Edward had cordial relations with Stephenson and his son Robert for the rest of his life. He died of heart failure in Darlington on 31 July 1858 and was buried in the Quaker burial-ground in Skinnergate. Samuel Smiles described Pease as "a thoughtful and sagacious man, ready in resources, possessed of indomitable energy and perseverance." An edition of his diaries appeared in 1907. There is a statue of Joseph Pease in the centre of Darlington. Locomotion No 1, the first engine to haul passengers by steam on a public railway, still stands in Darlington as a monument to Edward Pease and the Stockton and Darlington Railway. On the day the foundation stone was being laid for the pedestal on which to display it, Henry Pease concluded his speech by saying ''"he rejoiced at seeing the first locomotive about to be placed in a suitable position, so as to hand down to posterity a memorial of one of the greatest events the civilised world ever witnessed." References External sources Edward Pease, National Portrait Gallery, London https://web.archive.org/web/20050209121421/http://www.railcentre.co.uk/stockton/stocktonmenu.htm Darlington Quaker Photographs The Diaries of Edward Pease British railway pioneers People of the Industrial Revolution People from Darlington Edward English Quakers 1767 births 1858 deaths Stockton and Darlington Railway