staging the baiting of bulls, dogs, bears, badgers or "other Animal (whether of domestic or wild Nature or Kind)". The Act also banned (but failed to eradicate) dog fighting and cockfighting. Pease supported the Whig governments of Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne. He joined Thomas Fowell Buxton in the anti-slavery movement. He supported the removal of bishops from the House of Lords. He was also in favour of shorter Parliaments and the secret ballot. He retired from politics in 1841. In 1860, Pease became the president of the Peace Society, a post he held until his death. He wrote a poem in praise of Newington Academy for Girls, founded by Quaker scientist and abolitionist, William Allen. Like his father before him, he is buried at the Friends Burial Ground, Skinnergate, Darlington, County Durham. A statue to Joseph Pease stands at the junction of High Row and Bondgate, in the centre of Darlington. It was unveiled in 1875, to mark the golden jubilee of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Joseph Pease also paid for the building of the Clock Tower in Darlington as a gift to Darlington. See also List of political families in the United Kingdom References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20050310035249/http://www.interactivitiesink.com/larps/brassy/parliament.shtml http://www.spartacus-educational.com/REpease.htm Joseph Pease Statue, High Row, Darlington Statue of Joseph Pease Darlington Quaker Photographs People of the Industrial Revolution Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 English Quakers Joseph People from Darlington People from County Durham Politics of Darlington 1799 births 1872 deaths Stockton and Darlington Railway 19th-century English businesspeople