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	The Peel Society. The home of the Peel Society on the web.
		The Peel Society was founded in 1979 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force.
		Sir Robert Peel, is remembered for many notable Acts of Parliament and policies, such as the founding of the Metropolitan Police in 1829 and in the same year, Catholic Emancipation.
		The Peel Society is seeking to establish in Tamworth a national Memorial to Sir Robert Peel, Second Baronet which celebrates the life and work of Sir Robert Peel and the period in which he lived.
	www.thepeelsociety.org.uk (445 words)

	Peel, Sir Robert - MSN Encarta
		Peel was born near Bury in Lancashire, and educated at Harrow School and at Christ Church, Oxford.
		In 1834 William IV dismissed the ministry of Lord Melbourne and Peel was appointed prime minister in a minority Tory government.
		Peel's ministry was notable for placing the country’s finances on a sound footing, reintroducing income tax and so guaranteeing revenue and passing the Bank Charter Act of 1844 that connected note issue with gold reserves.
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	Sir Robert Peel
		Peel Tower, another monument erected to mark the life of Sir Robert Peel, was built by public subscription at a cost of £1000 and dedicated, the day after the of, the statue of Sir Robert, by Joshua Knowles of Stormer Hill.
		Robert Peel was born on 5 th February 1788 the third child of Robert Senior and Ellen Peel who lived at Chamber Hall near Bury Ground.
		Peel returned to the Commons as the MP for the family seat of Tamworth and for the first time he was now a member of the opposition party.
	www.mbbcanal.demon.co.uk /trail/bury/Robertpeel/robertpeel.html (1197 words)

	BBC - History - Sir Robert Peel (1788 - 1850)
		Peel was twice British prime minister and his period in government saw landmark social reforms and the repeal of the Corn Laws.
		Robert Peel was born on 5 February 1788 in Bury, Lancashire.
		In 1841 Peel again formed a Conservative administration, and it was during this government that he oversaw the introduction of significant legislation such as the Mines Act of 1842, which forbade the employment of women and children underground and the Factory Act of 1844, which limited working hours for children and women in factories.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/peel_sir_robert.shtml (430 words)

	Sir Robert Peel
		Peel, however, was himself the controlling intellect of the government of which he was the head, and was doubtless superior in attainments and political genius to Wellington, to Earl Grey, and Lord John Russell,--premiers like him, and prominent as statesmen.
		Sir Robert Peel came from the people, although his father was a baronet and a very wealthy man, proud and aristocratic as he was rich.
		Sir Robert Peel's mission was that of a financier and political economist, which, next to that of warrior, brings the greatest influence and fame in a commercial and manufacturing country like England.
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	Peel Web home page
		Peel was responsible for the establishment of the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829 and was Prime Minister for a short time in 1834-5.
		Peel has been seen as both the founder and betrayer of the Conservative Party and also as the real founder of the Liberal Party.
		Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth's The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes of Manchester (1832).
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	Peel Sir Robert - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again...
		Robert Peel twice served as Prime Minister: from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835 and from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846.
		Peel, the the eldest son and third of eleven children of...
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	Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850)
		Robert Peel was born on 5 February 1788 at Chamber Hall near Bury in Lancashire.
		Peel made his forty-minute long maiden speech on 23 January 1810 in which he seconded the reply to the King's speech at the opening of parliament; for his efforts, he was applauded by those who heard him speak.
		Peel was on holiday in Italy but eventually was tracked down on 25 November; he returned and took up the post of both PM and Chancellor of the Exchequer on 9 December 1834.
	www.dialspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/pms/peelbio.htm (2268 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Peel (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		As home secretary (1822–27, 1828–30) Peel succeeded in reforming the criminal laws and established (1829) the London police force, whose members came to be called Peelers or Bobbies.
		Peel was asked to form a cabinet in 1839 but declined when the young Queen Victoria refused to make requested changes in her household.
		Peel had formerly defended these laws, which protected Tory agricultural interests, but he was impressed by the arguments of Richard Cobden against them and convinced by the disastrous effect of the potato famine in Ireland.
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	Sir Robert, Bart. Peel - LoveToKnow 1911
		Peel was converted to the currency doctrines of the economists, and proclaimed his conversion in a great speech on the 24th of May 1819, in which he moved and carried four resolutions embodying the recommendations of the bullion committee in favour of a return to cash payments.
		SIR Frederick Peel (1823-1906), the prime minister's second son, was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a barrister in 1849.
		William Yates Peel (1789-1858), educated at Harrow and at St John's College, Cambridge, was a member of parliament from 1817 to 1837, and again from 1847 to 1852; he was undersecretary for home affairs in 1828, and was a lord of the treasury in 1830 and again in 1834-1835.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Robert,_Bart._Peel (5044 words)

	Robert Peel, Sir Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Robert Peel was born on Feb. 5, 1788, at Chamber Hall, Bury, Lancashire, close to the cotton mills that had made his father's immense fortune.
		In 1819 Peel chaired the committee of the House of Commons that made the crucial recommendation that Britain return to the gold standard, and the statute that accomplished this was commonly known as "Peel's Act." It was also during this period that Peel made a singularly happy marriage with society belle Julia Floyd.
		Peel's first government is notable mainly in that it allowed him to redefine Tory goals, particularly in the Tamworth Manifesto, which he issued to his constituents on the eve of the general election.
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	Sir Robert Peel
		Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 â“ 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from December 10, 1834 to April 8, 1835, and again from August 30, 1841 to June 29, 1846.
		Peel was born in Bury, Lancashire, England to the industrialist and Member of Parliament Sir Robert Peel.
		Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London on 29 June 1850, the horse stumbled on top of him and he died three days later on July 2 at the age of 62.
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	Peel, Sir Robert. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In opposing parliamentary reform he recovered some of the Tory support that he lost by this position, and after the Reform Bill of 1832 (see Reform Acts) had passed despite his opposition, he rallied the party and was prime minister for a brief term (1834–35).
		Peel was asked to form a cabinet in 1839 but declined when the young Queen Victoria refused to make requested changes in her household.
		Peel had formerly defended these laws, which protected Tory agricultural interests, but he was impressed by the arguments of Richard Cobden against them and convinced by the disastrous effect of the potato famine in Ireland.
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	Sir Robert Peel - Encyclopedia.com
		In opposing parliamentary reform he recovered some of the Tory support that he lost by this position, and after the Reform Bill of 1832 (see Reform Acts) had passed despite his opposition, he rallied the party and was prime minister for a brief term (1834-35).
		Peel was asked to form a cabinet in 1839 but declined when the young Queen Victoria refused to make requested changes in her household.
		Peel had formerly defended these laws, which protected Tory agricultural interests, but he was impressed by the arguments of Richard Cobden against them and convinced by the disastrous effect of the potato famine in Ireland.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Peel-Sir.html (1299 words)

	Metropolitan Police Service - History of the Metropolitan Police Service
		Sir Richard Mayne, Joint Commissioner Peel stressed that the principal duty of the police was to be crime prevention (rather than detection.) The nicknames 'Peelers' and 'Bobbies' were uncomplimentary results of his decision to make the force directly responsible to himself in the Home Office.
		Peel himself said that he accepted low pay for the men as he did not want any policeman feeling superior to the job or his colleagues.
		Sir Robert Peel is commemorated in the MPS by the training schools' names (first Peel House, now Peel Centre); by a bronze statue acquired by the Hendon training school in 1873 and by a marble bust displayed in the Historical Museum.
	www.met.police.uk /history/peel.htm (313 words)

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		Peel felt compelled to resign his seat at Oxford, as what had made him attractive to that constituency in the first place was his opposition to it (in 1815 he had, in fact, challenged to a duel the man most associated with emancipation, Daniel O'Connell).
		Peel was selected as Prime Minister, though was in Italy at the time, so Wellington acted as a caretaker for the three weeks in November and December it took Peel to return.
		Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London on 29 June 1850, and died three days later at the age of 62.
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		Sir Robert Peel, the Second Baronet, was born in 1788 into the world of Joshua Reynolds, of stage-coaches and highwaymen, and died in 1850 in the age of Darwin, of Punch, railway excursions, trade unions and income-tax.
		In the 1790's the father of Sir Robert migrated south to Staffordshire where he acquired the Manor of Drayton and realised his ambitions to achieve "rank and consequence" in society, first entering Parliament as the Member for Tamworth in 1790 and earning his baronetcy in 1800.
		Drayton Manor was built for the Prime Minister by Robert Smirke, the fashionable architect, and William Gilpin, the great landscape gardener of that time, and it was in the little parish church at Drayton that Sir Robert was buried following a fall from his horse on Constitution Hill, London.
	www.thepeelsociety.fsworld.co.uk /robert_peel.html (422 words)

	Sir Robert Peel
		Robert Peel was born at Peelfold, Lancashire on 25th April 1750.
		At the age of twenty-three Robert Peel was made a partner and soon afterwards took charge of the company.
		Peel was aware that some factory owner's treated their young workers very badly.
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	Sir Robert Peel
		Robert Peel was born on the 5th February 1788 at Chamber Hall, Bury, the first son and third child of Robert Peel Senior (a wealthy cotton spinner and print works owner) and Ellen Peel who lived at Chamber Hall, Bury.
		Peel became a Cabinet minister in 1822 when he was 34 years old as Home Secretary for Lord Liverpool's Tory government, he reformed the gaols and reduced the amount of offences that carried the death penalty.
		Peel was a shrewd businessman and, aware that his introduction of machinery was sure to cause problems among traditional Lancashire textile workers, he built a new factory in Tamworth and manned it partly with pauper children from London workhouses.
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	BART SIR ROBERT PEEL - Online Information article about BART SIR ROBERT PEEL
		August Peel expressed to the duke of Wellington his conviction that the question must be settled.
		Catholic emancipation was forced on Peel by circumstances; but it was mainly owing to him that the measure was complete, and based upon equality of civil rights.
		The result was a majority of ninety-one against them on a motion of want of confidence in the autumn of 1841, upon which they resigned, and Sir Robert Peel became first lord of the treasury, with a commanding majority in both Houses of Parliament.
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	Robert Peel
		Robert Peel was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won a double first in classics and mathematics.
		However, Robert Peel was not successful in carrying out this policy and eventually he became seen as one of the leading opponents to Catholic Emancipation.
		Although the Duke of Wellington agreed with Peel, King George III was violently opposed to Catholic Emancipation.
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	Timeline of Sir Robert Peel's Life
		Peel became Under-Secretary for War and the Colonies in the Tory government of Spencer Perceval, at the age of 22.
		Peel reformed the gaols and reduced the amount of offences that carried the death penalty.
		Peel was beginning to be recognised as the leader of the Tories.
	www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /landow/victorian/history/peel.html (850 words)

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