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Pease, Helen Blanche, 1865-1951

 Person

Biography

Helen Blanche Pease (1865-1951): Daughter of Joseph Whitwell and Mary Pease (nee Fox). Cousin to Beatrice Pease (of the Portsmouth affair family scandal), who was raised by Helen's mother and father after the death of her own parents. Cousin also to Katherine Pease Routledge, who would travel to Easter Island in the 1910s. Sister to Alfred Edward Pease. Marries her somewhat distant cousin, Edward Lloyd Pease on January 15, 1890. During her lifetime, she served as Justice of the Peace for Durham County.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Flower drawings, 1882

 Item — 2: Series 1, Folder: 8a
Call Number: MSS 6, Series I
Scope and Contents: Consists of two graphite drawings by Helen Blanche Pease within the following published work: Hulme, F. Edward. Flower Painting in Water Colours. London: Cassell & Co., [1881?]. The front endleaf is inscribed: Helen Blanche Pease, 1 Jany. 1882. Hulme authored several series of this title, circa 1880-1885. The present volume appears to be the first series. The title pages and other preliminaries have been neatly excised in this copy. It retains all 20...
Dates: 1882

Pease family collection of sketchbooks and exercise books

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 6
Abstract:

The collection comprises sketchbooks and exercise books belonging to the Pease family of Durham and Yorkshire Counties, England. The Peases were part of an important network of Quaker industrialists in the northeast of England, and established the nation's first railroad in 1825. Items in the collection date from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Dates: 1814-1909

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Art, Amateur -- Great Britain 1
Children's art 1
Education -- Great Britain 1
Exercise books 1
Exercise books (Penmanship) 1