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2 de jul. de 2010 · Peel was the greatest statesman and political leader of mid-Victorian Britain, a titan of Conservative politics, whose legacy has inspired generations in his party and in British political life. In a career spanning forty years he held the greatest offices of state including Chief Secretary to Ireland, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and was twice Prime Minister.
1 de jun. de 2009 · Butterfield's denunciations of teleology can have left little mark on Hurd, whose ambition here is partly to recover the administrative genius, and partly the founding role in the Conservative party, of Robert Peel. Given Hurd's political experience, much is inevitably made by the publishers of the symmetry between biographer and subject.
Sir Robert Peel. In spite of the huge success of his ‘Bobbies’, Peel was not a well liked man. Queen Victoria is said to have found him ‘a cold, unfeeling, disagreeable man’. They had many personal conflicts over the years, and when he spoke against awarding her ‘darling’ Prince Albert an annual income of £50,000, he did little to ...
In 1822, Sir Robert Peel was appointed Home Secretary. He would become closely associated with penal reform in Britain. He is remembered especially for the formation of the Metropolitan London Police Force in 1829. Police constables were called ‘bobbies’ or ‘peelers’ in reference to Peel. Before Peel’s reforms, public order in London ...
28 de dic. de 2017 · Robert Peel (1788-1850), as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our police force, which became a model for the world. He steered through the Bill which allowed Catholics to sit in Parliament. He reorganised the criminal justice system.
Robert Peel, né le 5 février 1788 à Ramsbottom dans le Lancashire et mort le 2 juillet 1850 à Londres, est un homme d'État britannique du XIXe siècle. Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni de 1834 à 1835 puis de 1841 à 1846, il favorise le passage de l'économie de son pays au système du libre-échange. Il exerce également les fonctions de chancelier de l'Échiquier au cours de son premier ...
Peel, Sir Robert (1788–1850), 2nd baronet, Irish chief secretary (1812–18), was born 5 February 1788, at Bury, Lancashire, England, eldest son of Robert Peel (1750–1830), a wealthy calico-printer, and his wife Ellen (née Yates), daughter of his business partner. In 1790 his father bought a large estate in Staffordshire including parts of ...
