Joseph Pease (India reformer)

Joseph Pease (1772–1846) was an English Quaker activist. Among a number of reforming interests, he became best known in the context of the British India Society.

He was a son of Joseph Pease (1737–1808) and his wife Mary Richardson, and a younger brother of Edward Pease. His father was a woollen manufacturer of Darlington, as was his brother Edward Pease, and he went into the same business.

Sometimes referred to as Joseph Pease of Feethams, he is often confused with his nephew Joseph Pease, the first Quaker Member of Parliament. He made his name as an India reformer, and his branch of the family supported abolitionism in the form given to it by William Lloyd Garrison. ("Joseph Pease of Darlington" may also refer to his father or nephew.)

Pease opposed the Corn Laws from 1815. He was one of the founders of the Peace Society in 1817.During the 1830s he became active in involving others in "India reform", which meant here commercial solutions to driving out the use of slaves.