Robert Peel

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1788–1850)

19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom

1829 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Act of Parliament 10 Geo. 4 c. 7

thumb|Parodic phrenological analysis of Peel, 1850. The Peelites, also called the Peel faction, were a breakaway political faction of the British Conservative Party from 1846 to 1859. Initially led by Robert Peel, the former Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader in 1846, the Peelites supported free trade whilst the bulk of the Conservative Party remained protectionist. The Peelites later merged with the Whigs and Radicals to form the Liberal Party in 1859.

1844 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Act of Parliament 7 & 8 Vic c. 32

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former political movement in Great Britain

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philosophy that Sir Robert Peel developed to define an ethical police force

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British political manifesto issued by Robert Peel