Billy Pease	Middlesbrough FC 1 appearance, 0 goals P 1 W 0 D 1 L 0 F 3: A 3 50% successful 1927 captain: none minutes played: 90
Timeline
	Willie Pease
	Thought to be William Harold, but there are none. Willie was one of only two Leeds-born Pease's, and besides, his death registry confirms his actual name. Incidentally, the other was born in 1898.
Birth	30 September 1899 at 7 Roxburgh Place, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire [registered in Hunslet, December 1899].
Baptism	22 November 1899 in St Peter's Church, Hunslet Moor. By W. Gifford
	According to the 1901 census, Willie is the youngest of two children, the older being Amy, to Walter and Annie (née Castle). They live at 7 Roxburgh Place in Hunslet. His father is a file grinder.
	According to the 1911 census, Willie now has three younger siblings, Harry, Lillie and Laurie, still with their parents. Their father is still a file grinder and they live at 4 Westwood Grove in Hunslet.
	According to the 1921 census, William, a professional footballer (for Northampton Town FC), is boarding with the Croft family at 117 Lutterworth Road in Northampton. According to passenger lists, Pease, along with other footballers, was part of a tour of South Africa that returned to Southampton on 5 August 1929 from Cape Town on board the SS Arundel Castle. His address was stated as 48 Ayresome Street in Middlesbrough.
Marriage	to Maria Mercia Relph [registered in Middlesbrough, June 1931]. They had three sons, William, Christopher and David.
	According to the 1939 register, Willie is the manager at The Leeds Hotel, on the Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough.
"EX-FOOTBALLER FINED "'Billy' Pease, licensee of the Roseberry Hotel, Middlesbrough, and formerly Middlesbrough F.C. international right winger, was fined 10s at Middlesbrough Police Court yesterday, when he admitted having supplied a customer with a bottle of beer after 10 p.m. on February 6. The customer, Walter I. Blance, of Lydbrooke Road, Middlesbrough, was fined 7s 6d for aiding and abetting." - Thursday, 27 February 1941, Newcastle Journal and North Mail,
Death	Sunday, 2 October 1955 in Redcar, North Yorkshire, aged 56 years 3 days [registered in Cleveland, December 1955] from a brain hemorrhage
"Billy Pease, the only Leeds-born professional Association football player ever to be capped, has died in Redcar aged 56. Pease, one of the finest outside-rights of his day, had a long career in senior Soccer, but his first sports were running and Rugby football. As a youth he played for Holbeck St. Barnabas, and during the 1914-18 war he was closely watched by Football League clubs when playing for the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. He joined Leeds City after the war and was on the point of being promoted from the reserve team when the club was disbanded. Pease then joined Northampton Town, for which club he made over 100 consecutive appearances and qualified for a benefit. He was transferred to Middlesbrough in 1926, and in the next year he was selected to play for England against Wales in an international Championship match and also in a representative game for England against South Africa. In the summer of 1933 Pease became a Luton player but, after having a cartilage removed in the next close season, his contract was cancelled. He was placed on the transfer list and he did not again play in the Football League" - The Yorkshire Post, Monday, 3 October 1955
Funeral	Thursday, 6 October 1955 in Redcar cemetery (left)
	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990], granddaughter, Vicky Pease &
Playing Career
Club(s)	Began his career playing for Holbeck St. Barnabas FC, and during the war, he was a Private with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, where he improved his football. Pease then joined his local league club, Leeds City AFC as an amateur during the 1918/19 season. He was sold during an auction when City were disbanded in October 1919, Pease signed amateur forms with Northampton Town FC on 19 October. Middlesbrough FC then signed Pease on 19 May 1926 for a £2000 transfer fee and then Luton Town FC signed him on 1 June 1933. On 18 December 1934, it was discussed that Pease would become the player-manager of Gateshead FC, however, the club was not in a financial position to employ him. Luton granted Pease a 'free transfer' on 18 January 1935, allowing him to retire on 23 January 1935, choosing to enter the licensing trade despite being offered terms to join Hartlepools United FC.
Club honours	Football League Division Two winners 1926-27, 1928-29;
Individual honours	None
Distinctions	None
Height/Weight	5' 9½", 11st. 5lbs [1930].
Source	Douglas Lammings' An English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].
England Career
Player number	One of five who became 512th player (514) to appear for England. The first Leeds-born player to be capped by England, and the only until....tbc
Position(s)	Outside-right
Only match	No. 152, 12 February 1927, Wales 3 England 3, a British Championship match at The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, aged 27 years 135 days.
Major tournaments	British Championship 1926-27;
Team honours	British Championship shared 1926-27;
Individual honours	FA Tour of South Africa 1929;
Distinctions	Pease refereed a match on 12 July 1939 between the England Ladies team and the Scotland Ladies team, at Cleveland Park Stadium in Middlesbrough, in aid of the North Riding Infirmary and North Ormesby Hospitals (Picture below).
Beyond England
After leaving the game, he was employed as a licensee, firstly at The Leeds Hotel in Middlesbrough, then, from 1940, in the The Roseberry in Stokesley. Afterwhich he ran a bed & breakfast in Redcar, where he would later die. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who. Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.194/5./Vicky Pease

Billy Pease - Match History
 

Club: Middlesbrough F.C. - one full appearance (90 min)

F.A. International Selection Committee - one full appearance (90 min)x

Age 27
1	152	12 February 1927 - Wales 3 England 3, The Racecourse, Wrexham	BC	AD	Start	or

Notes


FOR HOSPITALS.—The England captain (left), Margaret Thornborough (Preston Ladies), meets the Scots captain, Mary Leslie (Edinburgh Ladies), in the ladies’ international football match at Cleveland Park Stadium, Middlesbrough, in aid of the North Riding Infirmary and the North Ormesby Hospital. Behind are Billy Pease (referee) and Mr. G. Watts, of North Ormesby Hospital. - Wednesday, 12 July 1939, North-Eastern Gazette

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