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15 unusual facts about Robert Peel


A Program for Monetary Reform

The present 100% proposal is merely that we follow up the job thus undertaken in 1844 by Sir Robert Peel.

Bank Charter Act 1844

The Bank Charter Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed under the government of Robert Peel, which restricted the powers of British banks and gave exclusive note-issuing powers to the central Bank of England.

Canning Downs

The area was first named after the British statesmen, George Canning and Sir Robert Peel, by Allan Cunningham.

Firearms unit

Despite this, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel gave the Commissioner authorisation to purchase fifty flintlock pocket pistols for use in exceptional circumstances.

Halkirk

Sir Robert Peel is said to have acquired a taste for the whisky.

Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society

The Society was wound up in 1844, during the second ministry of Sir Robert Peel, when a special meeting was held for the purpose.

James Snipplet

A member of the House of Commons under Prime Ministers Sir Robert Peel (1841–1846) and Lord John Russell (1846–1852), Snipplet is best known for his impassioned speeches and staunch backroom diplomacy as an advocate for the rights of the poor during the Irish Potato Famine (1845–1852).

Peel and Dufferin Regiment

The regimental badge adopted was the Demi Lion which was the personal crest of Sir Robert Peel.

Early that year the Regiment had received permission from Sir Robert Peel (after whose family the county had been named) to use part of his crest as a regimental badge.

Peel County, Ontario

Named for Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the county was organized in 1849.

Peel High School

Established in 1976, Peel High School was named after Sir Robert Peel, an important British politician at the time of the discovery of the Tamworth region, by British settlers in Australia.

Peel Street, Hong Kong

It is named after Robert Peel, the two-time British Prime Minister.

Pilot Mill, Bury

The establishment of Brooksbottom Mill, in Summerseat north of the town, as a calico printing works in 1773 by the family of Sir Robert Peel marked the beginning of the cotton industry in Bury.

The Peeler and the Goat

The Penal Laws had been passed with the intent of persecuting the Irish Catholic population and Sir Robert Peel had been appointed Secretary of Ireland by the British Government in 1812.

Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

Those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel.


Bernard Barton

His chief works are The Convict's Appeal published in 1818, a protest against the death penalty and general severity of the criminal code, and Household Verses published 1845, which came to the notice of Sir R. Peel, through whom he obtained a pension of £100 a year.

Drayton Bassett

Robert Peel (1788 – 1850), prime minister and creator of the Metropolitan Police Force for London, lived in Drayton Manor (now demolished and replaced by Drayton Manor Theme Park) and is buried in the vault of the parish church, St Peter.

George W. McClusky

McDermott was dining with Sir Robert Peel and Viscount Clifford Talbot, having befriended them on his return voyage to the United States, when McClusky confronted the trickster.

Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829

Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, who had until then always opposed emancipation (and had, in 1815, challenged O'Connell to a duel) concluded: "though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger."

St George's Hall, Liverpool

The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Hugh Boyd M‘Neile by George Gamon Adams, Edward Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S.