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Robert Peel
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, was a British Conservative statesman who twice was British Prime Minister, and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police while he was Home Secretary. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative…
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politics · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835; 1841–1846) · politician · art collector · minister · also Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, Sir Robert Peel, Peel Collection [2nd Bart.], 2nd Bart. Sir Robert Peel, Robert, Sir, 2nd Bart. Peel
Born 5 February 1788 · Died 2 July 1850 · Q181875
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I have endeavoured to steer a middle course between the general verbosity of our English statutes, and the extreme brevity of the French criminal code. ... In the bills I have the honour of submitting to the House, a middle course has been steered between the redundancy of our own legal enactments, and the conciseness of the French code.
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[A]ll my own interests are identified with agricultural prosperity. It is true that I am under the deepest obligation to commerce and manufactures; and I am proud to acknowledge them; but all my present pecuniary and personal interests are centred in the prosperity of agriculture.
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2021· 1 entry
In The Economic Journal found that the repeal of the corn laws adversely affected the welfare of the top 10 per cent of income-earners in Britain, whereas the bottom 90 per cent of income-earners gained
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1859· 2 entries
And she married her second husband, Charles Brandling, on 12 September 1865
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Peel became engaged to Julia Floyd (1795–1859) (daughter of General Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Rebecca Darke) in March 1820; they married on 8 June 1820.
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1853· 1 entry
And named Peel Forest after the former prime minister, as he had died in the year that Canterbury was founded
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1850· 5 entries
Died 1850-07-02.
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“I have endeavoured to steer a middle course between the general verbosity of our English statutes, and the extreme brevity of the French criminal code. ... In the bills I have the honour of submitting to the House, a middle course has been steered between the redundancy of our own legal enactments, and the conciseness of the French code.”
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“I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes, the various elements in short, which constitute or affect the price of agricultural produce.”
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“[A]ll my own interests are identified with agricultural prosperity. It is true that I am under the deepest obligation to commerce and manufactures; and I am proud to acknowledge them; but all my present pecuniary and personal interests are centred in the prosperity of agriculture.”
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“I believe that on the general principle of free-trade there is now no great difference of opinion, and that all agree in the general rule that we should purchase in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest.”
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1849· 1 entry
Was actively courted by the Whig/Radical coalition
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1847· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1847–1850).
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1846· 1 entry
Won him immense prestige in the country, and his death in 1850 caused a national demonstration of sorrow unprecedented since the death of William Pitt in 1806
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1844· 1 entry
Peel argued that the choice was the maintenance of the 1842 Corn Law or total repeal
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1843· 1 entry
Peel was the target of a failed assassination attempt; a criminally insane Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten stalked him for several days before, on 20 January, killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond
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1841· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1841–1847).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1841–1846).
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1837· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1837–1841).
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And many of the higher posts in Victoria's household were held by the wives and female relatives of Whigs; there was some feeling that Victoria had allowed herself to be too closely associated with the Whig party
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1836· 1 entry
And named after Peel (who was a patron of the organisation)
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1835· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1835–1837).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1835–1841).
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1834· 2 entries
Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835).
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1832· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1832–1834).
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1831· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 10th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1831–1832).
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1830· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 9th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1830–1831).
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1829· 2 entries
That Peel established the Metropolitan Police Force for London based at Scotland Yard
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Career landmark: member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1829–1830).
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1828· 1 entry
Career landmark: Home Secretary (1828–1830).
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1827· 1 entry
The Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, became incapacitated and was replaced by George Canning
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1826· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 8th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1826–1829).
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1822· 2 entries
Career landmark: Home Secretary (1822–1827).
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Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet (4 May 1822 – 9 May 1895).
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1820· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 7th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1820–1826).
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1819· 1 entry
The House of Commons appointed a select committee, the Bullion Committee, charged with stabilising British finances after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and Peel was chosen as its chairman
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1818· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 6th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1818–1820).
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1817· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1817–1818).
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1812· 3 entries
And then one of those for Oxford University in 1817
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Career landmark: member of the 5th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1812–1817).
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Peel was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland
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1810· 1 entry
Peel was appointed an Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies; the senior minister in the portfolio, the secretary of state, was Lord Liverpool
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1809· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the 4th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1809–1812).
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At the age of 21, as the member of Parliament (MP) for the Irish rotten borough of Cashel in County Tipperary
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And became a rising star in the Tory Party
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1808· 2 entries
Peel became the first Oxford student to take a double first in classics and mathematics
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And later as lieutenant in the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry in 1820
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1805· 1 entry
Peel matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford
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1804· 1 entry
Peel and Byron acted part of Virgil's Aeneid, Peel playing Turnus and Byron playing Latinus
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1800· 1 entry
At the age of twelve, making him the first of his siblings to leave home
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1788· 1 entry
Born 1788-02-05.
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