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  • © 1999

Sir Robert Peel

Authors:

  1. T. A. Jenkins

    1. History of Parliament Trust, UK

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  • The first substantial study of this hugely influential Victorian Prime Minister for twenty years
    Incorporates the findings of the latest specialist research in a single accessible volume for students and the general reader

Part of the book series: British History in Perspective (BHP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 1-3

  3. The Tory Administrations, 1809–30

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 4-33

  4. The Crisis in Church and State

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 34-64

  5. The New Conservatism

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 65-95

  6. Prime Minister, 1841–6

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 96-134

  7. Peel’s Achievement

    • T. A. Jenkins
    Pages 135-155

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 156-179
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About this book

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is always remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study of his career uniquely useful for students of the period. In many ways, he can be seen as the archetypal link figure between the pre-Reform and post-Reform political worlds - embodying a strange mixture of reactionary Toryism and vigorous progressivism.
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  • History of Parliament Trust, UK

    T. A. Jenkins

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About the author

T.A. JENKINS, formerly a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter, East Anglia and Bristol, is a Research Officer with the History of Parliament Trust.
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