Pease was born in 1922 at Prior House, in
Richmond, Yorkshire, the son of Sir Richard Arthur Pease (1890–1969), the 2nd Baronet, and the grandson of
Sir Arthur Pease, 1st Baronet (1866–1927). He was educated at
Eton College. His elder brother Arthur Peter Pease was an RAF Flying Officer who was killed in action on 15 September 1940, aged just 22, during the
Battle of Britain, when his
Spitfire was shot down near Kingswood, in Kent. ==Career==