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Hace 3 días · Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835). He previously was Home Secretary twice (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
11 de jun. de 2024 · That concern with the judgement of posterity – and Peel’s anxiety to shape its deliberations – forms the keynote of Richard Gaunt’s new study: Sir Robert Peel: the Life and Legacy. As Gaunt makes clear at the outset, his book is not ‘a new cradle-to-grave biography’.
16 de jun. de 2024 · The review draws attention to how Chartism: a New History shows the extent to which O'Connor venerated Peel. O’Connor, Robert Saunders remarks, ‘throws a long shadow across the book’.
Hace 4 días · By 1812, when Robert Peel, the founder of modern professional policing in England, was appointed chief secretary for Ireland, Dublin was considered relatively free of crime. Later, as home secretary, Peel sponsored the first successful bill to create a professional police force in England.
18 de jun. de 2024 · Although Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel continued to allow the export of grain from Ireland to Great Britain, he did what he could to provide relief in 1845 and early 1846. He authorized the import of corn (maize) from the United States, which helped avert some starvation.
9 de jun. de 2024 · When Melbourne resigned in May 1839, Sir Robert Peel, the Conservative leader, stipulated that the Whig assistants to the queen, her ladies-in-waiting, be replaced with Tory women of his own political party.
Hace 3 días · After the 1841 general election, Melbourne was replaced as Prime Minister by Sir Robert Peel, who appointed Albert chairman of the Royal Commission in charge of redecorating the new Palace of Westminster. The Palace had burned down seven years before, and was being rebuilt.
