Edward R. Pease

Edward Reynolds Pease (1857–1955) was an English socialist and one of the founders of the Fabian Society in 1884. Born into a Quaker family in Bristol, he worked as a stockbroker before giving up business, and later trained as a cabinetmaker. He served as secretary of the Fabian Society from 1890 to 1913 and played a part in the creation of the Labour Party, sitting on its executive. His History of the Fabian Society, published in 1916, is an insider's account of the society and of British socialism in its formative years. He lived to the age of ninety-seven.