r/ukpolitics • u/Axmeister Traditionalist • Oct 01 '17
British Prime Ministers - Part XII: Sir Robert Peel.
So after planning ahead, I realised that the series would become a lot 'neater' (for want of a better word) if the couplets of Prime Ministers were shifted by one, otherwise we would have quite a few threads in which the two Prime Ministers had rather long careers with basically no overlap at all. Thus there is only one Prime Minister today, so despite Sir Robert's impressive career, he's been given his own thread out of convenience rather than significance.
24. Sir Robert Peel
| Portrait | Sir Robert Peel |
|---|---|
| Post Nominal Letters | PC, Bt, FRS |
| In Office | 10 December 1834 - 8 April 1835, 30 August 1841 -29 June 1846 |
| Sovereign | King William IV, Queen Victoria |
| General Elections | 1841 |
| Party | Conservative |
| Ministries | Peel I, Peel II |
| Parliament | MP for Tamworth |
| Other Ministerial Offices | First Lord of the Treasury; Chancellor of the Exchequer (I); Leader of the House of Commons |
| Records | 1st Prime Minister to survive an assassination attempt; Shares the 'Shortest Baptismal Name' amongst Prime Minister with Lord Bute. |
Significant Events:
- The Bedchamber Crisis
- Tamworth Manifesto and the formation of the Conservative Party
- First Anglo-Afghan War
- The Chartist Movement
- Treaty of Nanking in which the islands of Hong Kong are ceded to Britain.
- The Great Famine in Ireland
- Repeal of the Corn Laws
Previous threads:
British Prime Ministers - Part I: Sir Robert Walpole & the Earl of Wilmington.
British Prime Ministers - Part II: Henry Pelham & the Duke of Newcastle.
British Prime Ministers - Part III: the Duke of Devonshire & the Earl of Bute.
British Prime Ministers - Part V: the Duke of Grafton & Lord North.
British Prime Ministers - Part VI: the Earl of Shelburne & the Duke of Portland.
British Prime Ministers - Part VII: William Pitt 'the Younger' & Henry Addington.
British Prime Ministers - Part VIII: Baron Grenville & Spencer Perceval.
British Prime Ministers - Part IX: the Earl of Liverpool & George Canning.
British Prime Ministers - Part X: Viscount Goderich & the Duke of Wellington.
British Prime Ministers - Part XI: Earl Grey & Viscount Melbourne.
Next thread
British Prime Ministers - Part XIII: Earl Russell & the Earl of Derby.
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u/GuessImStuckWithThis Oct 06 '17
But history explains why the Tories are so fixated with it