Michael Stewart Pease OBE[1][2] (2 October 1890 – 27 July 1966) was a British classical geneticist at Cambridge University.
He worked at the Genetical Institute of Cambridge as assistant to Reginald Punnett, who created the first auto-sexing chicken breeds, the Cambar and Legbar, in which the sex of day-old chicks was clearly distinguishable from the plumage.
He was appointed to be an Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire in 1966 for political and public services in Cambridgeshire.
His father, a Major at the time, asked whether he could be exchanged for a German prisoner wishing to return to Berlin, but without success.
While interned Pease tried to get gardens put into the camp and on 27 April 1916 gave a lecture on dancing in Elizabethan times.