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| | PEEL, ARTHUR, WELLESLEY PEEL, 1ST VISCOUNT - LoveToKnow Article on PEEL, ARTHUR, WELLESLEY PEEL, 1ST VISCOUNT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | PEEL, ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, IST VISCOUNT (1829-), English statesman, youngest son of the great Sir Robert Peel, was born on the 3rd of August 1829, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. |
 | | A royal commission was appointed in April 1896 to inquire into the opcration and administration of the licensing laws, and Viscount Peel was appointed chairman. |
 | | From his classical studies Robert Peel derived not only the classical, though somewhat pompous, character of his speeches and the Latin quotations with which they were often happily interspcrsed but something of his lofty ideal of political ambition. |
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