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unusual facts about Sir Robert Peel


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.


Catholic emancipation

Finally, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel changed positions and passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.

Eddisbury by-election, 1929

37 year-old Fenwick Palmer (a descendant of Sir Robert Peel) was Chairman of Wrexham Conservative Association so was new to most electors in the constituency, although he was well known in Cheshire hunting circles.

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.

Henry Hart Milman

In 1835, Sir Robert Peel made him Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, and Canon of Westminster, and in 1849 he became Dean of St Paul's.

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 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.

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.

Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn

He served under Sir Robert Peel as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control between 1845 and 1846.

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."

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.

Woodhouse Moor

Near Hyde Park corner is a statue of Sir Robert Peel by William Behnes and at the opposite corner where Moorland Road meets Clarendon road is a statue of the Duke of Wellington by Carlo Marochetti.

Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

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


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Beatrice Lillie

She was married, on January 20, 1920, at the church of St. Paul, Drayton Bassett, Fazeley, Staffordshire, to Sir Robert Peel, 5th Baronet.

Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802

In 1784 there was an outbreak of disease at a factory owned by Sir Robert Peel in Radcliffe, which affected much of the workforce and surrounding population.