The context of the fight over free trade was famine in Ireland, which Peel hoped might be remedied by importation of grain.

" Cranborne, however, was unable to lead a rebellion similar to that which Disraeli had led against Peel twenty years earlier.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

In 1983, he was invited to record a session on the John Peel BBC Radio show with his band, performing six poems, which was his first professional engagement.

Historian and journalist Robert Peel, who was a Christian Scientist, chronicles examples of these accounts, quoting from the affidavits.

It was written by Christian Scientist, scholar and longtime Mother Church employee Robert Peel.

Robert Peel was able to reconcile the new industrial class to the Tory landed class by persuading the latter to accept the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

A version of " Two Tribes " was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.

Although much of his legal reform proposals were not established in his life time, his legal legacy was considered by the magazine New Scientist, in a publication of 1961, as having influenced the drafting of the Code Napoleon, and the law reforms introduced by Sir Robert Peel.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

The Woodhead Commission ( 1938 ) reported that the Peel Commission was unworkable and recommended setting up smaller Arab and Jewish zones, but this plan was rejected by both Arabs and Jews.

In 1936 the Peel Commission suggested partitioning Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, though it was rejected as unworkable by the government and was at least partially to blame for the 1936 – 39 Arab revolt.

The internal telegraph system was extended within a year to Castletown and Peel, however by then the previous lack of modern communications in Castletown had already started the Isle of Man Government on its move to Douglas.

By 1883 Smith's Directory listed several telegraph offices operated by the Post Office, in addition to those at Douglas, Ramsey, Castletown and Peel the telegraph was also available at Laxey, Ballaugh, and Port St. Mary.

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

Peel was born in Heswall Cottage Hospital in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, and grew up in the nearby village of Burton.

Peel was a vegetarian.

Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald, and he and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22 / 23 November midnight press conference at Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media.

At 15 he founded a punk rock band, The Ripchords, whose sole release, an eponymous EP with four tracks, was championed by the BBC Radio One DJ John Peel.

He became involved with the emerging UK acid house scene, after organizing Madhouse at The Fridge, Brixton in 1988-which was the subject of a piece by Peel in The Observer.

Steve Lamacq ( born 16 October 1965 ), sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo ( given to him by John Peel ) or " The Cat " ( due to his ability as a goalkeeper ) is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio stations BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 2.

York was born Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London, in 1939, the younger daughter of Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher ( 1910 – 2002 ), a merchant banker and steel magnate, and his first wife, the former Joan Nita Mary Bowring – they married in 1935 and divorced prior to 1943.

* Mark Peel ( born 1959 ), Australian historian and academic

Peel was born in Lancashire, England, the second son of Thomas Peel and his wife Dorothy, née Bolton.

* William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel ( born 1947 ), Lord Chamberlain

Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, who, as a factory-owner, effected wide developments in the cotton industry, was born at Peelfold, within the township, in 1750.

Aikins was born in Grahamsville, Peel County, Canada West ( now Ontario ) and educated at Toronto's Upper Canada College.

John Peel ( born 1954 ) is a British writer, best known for his books connected to several television series.

Peel was born at Park End, near Caldbeck, Cumberland ; his family moved a short time after to the Greenrigg farm.

Mary Joseph Pehl ( pronounced Peel ) born February 27, 1960 in Circle Pines, Minnesota, is an American writer, actress and comedienne.

Arnold Potts was born on 16 September 1896 at Peel on the Isle of Man to William, a schoolmaster, and Mary Potts.

* John Peel ( 1939 – 2004 ), British broadcaster and radio personality, born John Ravenscroft

* John Peel ( writer ) ( born 1954 ), science fiction author

The eldest son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel and Adelaide Dugdale, Peel was born in London in 1867.

Henry Goulburn, chancellor of the exchequer in the ministries of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, was born in London, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford.

David Peel ( born David Michael Rosario ) is a New York-based musician who first recorded in the late 1960s with Harold Black, Billy Joe White, and Larry Adam performing as David Peel and The Lower East Side Band.

The memorial tower to Sir Robert Peel high above Ramsbottom was planned and erected at the same time as Bury was preparing its statue to the then recently deceased statesman who was born in Bury.

* Memorial outside the Robert Peel public house in Bury town centre, his birthplace.

Image: Robert Peel statue, Bury. jpg | Statue by Edward Hodges Baily in Bury

* Robert Peel public house in Bury town centre, his birthplace

* Peel Tower Monument, this tower was built on top of Holcombe Hill in Ramsbottom, Bury.

* The official mascot of Bury Football Club is Robbie the Bobby, in honour of Sir Robert Peel.

Statue of Robert Peel | Sir Robert Peel by Edward Hodges Baily in Bury

* Sir Robert Peel – Market Place, Bury

Although not from Bury St Edmunds, BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel lived nearby in Great Finborough and, on 12 November 2004, his funeral took place at the cathedral.

A monument to Peel is outside Bury parish church and another, the austere Peel Monument, stands on a hill overlooking the locality.

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.

Although Bury had few of the classic late 19th century spinning mills that were such a feature of other Lancashire towns a group, known as Peel Mills, are still in use at Castlecroft Road, immediately north of the town centre, their name another reminder of the link with the Peel family.

Chaytor made his maiden speech on 17 June 1997, where he talked of the humble Bury black pudding and Bury's most famous son, Robert Peel.

The Houses were: Lord Kitchener ( Bury ), Sir Robert Peel ( Walmersley ), Lord George Byron ( Rochdale ), Lord Robert Clive ( Prestwich ) and Samuel Crompton ( Ainsworth and Bolton ) – all these once famous men had a particular association with the locality ( or localities in the case of Crompton ) mentioned in parenthesis, but details of such connection is beyond the scope of this entry.

The Peel Baronetcy, of Drayton Manor in the County of Stafford and of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 29 November 1800.

The radio station was given the name " Tower " as a local link to both towns in the station's coverage area ; Turton Tower in Bolton and Peel Tower on Holcombe Hill at Ramsbottom near Bury.

As an RSL, Tower FM broadcast from Bury via a link to the transmitter on Peel Tower.

The Peel Monument looking south towards Bury