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SIR FREDERICK PEEL (1823—1906)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 44 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:FREDERICK See also:PEEL (1823—1906) , the See also:prime See also:minister's second son, was educated at See also:Harrow and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, becoming a See also:barrister in 1849. He entered See also:parliament in that See also:year, and with the exception of the See also:period between 1857 and 1859 he remained in the See also:House of See also:Commons until 1865. In 1851—1852 and again in 1853—1855 he was under-secretary for the colonies; from 1855 to 1857 he was under-secretary for See also:war; and from 1859 to r865 he was secretary to the See also:treasury. He became a privy councillor in 1857 and was knighted in 1869. Sir Frederick Peel's See also:chief service to the See also:state was in connexion with the railway and See also:canal See also:commission. He was appointed a See also:commissioner on the inception of this See also:body in 1873, and was its See also:president until its reconstruction in 1888, remaining a member of the commission until his See also:death on the 6th of See also:June 1906. The third son was SIR See also:WILLIAM PEEL (1824—1858), and the youngest See also:VISCOUNT PEEL (q.v.). Sir William was a sailor, who distinguished himself in the See also:Crimea, where he gained the See also:Victoria See also:Cross, and also during the See also:Indian See also:Mutiny, being wounded at the See also:relief of See also:Lucknow. He died on the 27th of See also:April 1858. Sir William wrote A Ride through the Nubian See also:Desert (1852), giving an See also:account of his travels in 1851. Two of Sir See also:Robert Peel's See also:brothers were also politicians of See also:note. WILLIAM See also:YATES PEEL (1789—1858), educated at Harrow and at St See also:John's College, Cambridge, was a member of parliament from 1817 to 1837, and again from 1847 to 1852; he was under-secretary for See also:home affairs in 1828, and was a See also:lord of the treasury in 1830 and again in 1834—1835.

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JONATHAN PEEL (1799—1879) was first a soldier and then a member of parliament during the See also:long period between 1826 and 1868, first representing See also:Norwich and then See also:Huntingdon. From 1841 to 1846 he was surveyor-See also:general of the See also:ordnance, and in 1858–1859 and again in 1866—1867 he was a very competent and successful secretary of state for war. General Peel was also an owner of racehorses, and in 1844 his See also:horse Orlando won the See also:Derby, after another horse, See also:Running See also:Rein, had been disqualified. For the See also:history of the Peel See also:family see Jane See also:Haworth, A Memoir of the Family of Peel from the year i6go (1836).

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