Percy Pease
(1876-1940) merchant and politician
Percy Pease (29 July 1876 – 17 September 1940) was a businessman and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Biography
Pease was born in Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, England, to parents Cuthbert Pease, an army sergeant, and his wife Sarah Emily (née Nice). His family arrived in Brisbane in 1886 and then moved to Townsville where he attended the Townsville West State School. He found employment with Burns Philp and Samuel Allen & Sons in Townsville before working for Chillagoe Pty Co. as a forwarding manager in Mareeba. He then worked for the auctioneering and mercantile firm John Cairns & Co. where he presided over Chillagoe's first sale of township lots in November 1900.
Moving to Cairns, he held a partnership in a Cairns grocery and managed the Cairns Morning Post. Around 1904, he joined his elder brother Joseph in the carrying firm (F.A.) Wright, Heaton & Co., with Joseph looking after the Townsville operations and Percy those in Cairns. The brothers then started a general merchandise business in 1908.
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