PEEL, John (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire, calico printer). b. 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.; a merchant; M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death; contested Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. d. Middleton hall, Tamworth 2 April 1872, personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.
PEEL, John (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., d. 1830). b. 22 Aug. 1798; educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828 to death; canon residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45; dean of Worcester 9 Dec. 1845 to death. d. Waresley house, Worcester 18 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 211, 403 (1875).
PEEL, John (4 son of succeeding). b. 11 April 1829; ensign 34 foot 22 June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war, severely wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 23 Oct. 1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7; A.A.G. S.W. district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1 May 1876 to 10 July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 11 July 1885. d. at his residence near Herne Bay 17 Nov. 1892.
PEEL, Jonathan (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ. Rugby 1811–5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71 foot 18 Feb. 1819 to 13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7 Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825; major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June 1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June 1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug. 1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P. Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–68; surveyor general of the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for war 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March 1867; began racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with Archibald 1832, ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando and Ionian 1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851; kept race horses again 1869 to death. d. Marble hall, Twickenham 13 Feb. 1879. bur. Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. Famous racing men. By Thormanby (1882) 120–4; Rice’s British Turf ii 323–7 (1879); Baily’s Mag. iii 273–8 (1861) portrait; New sporting mag. xv 371 (1838) portrait; Sporting Times 13 Feb. 1875 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 201, 202 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 224 (1879) portrait.
PEEL, Jonathan (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house, Lancs., d. 16 April 1839). b. 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested Cheltenham 24 July 1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853; resided at Knowlmere manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a large flock of Lonk sheep, his ram Mountain King won 40 first prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864; bred short horn cattle 1851 to death, lost all his first herd by murrain 1856. d. Knowlmere manor 6 March 1885. H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 358–65.
PEEL, Sir Lawrence (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm, Middlesex, d. 1821). b. 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7 May 1824, bencher 8 May 1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866; advocate general at Calcutta 1840–2; chief justice of supreme court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842, retired Nov. 1855; knighted by patent 18 May 1842; vice-president of legislative council at Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his official income of £8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855; P.C. and paid member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a director of the East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858; president of Guy’s hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ 1841, and of A sketch of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860. d. Garden Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.
PEEL, Laurence (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). b. 28 June 1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the secretaries of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. d. 32 Sussex sq. Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.
PEEL, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow 1835–41; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to British legation at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation in Switzerland 2 May 1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846, resigned on his father’s death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth 20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880; shipwrecked off the coast of Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24 April 1854; captain in Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord of the admiralty March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord Granville’s special mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II. July 1856; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861, resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866; contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884, the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24 Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July 1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name of Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill, near Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures and 18 drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the National gallery for £75,000, March 1871; found dead in his bedroom at 12 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. bur. Drayton-Bassett parish church 16 May. St. Stephen’s Review 9 May 1891 pp. 13–4 portrait; Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp. 297, 300 portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1851 p. 254 portrait, and 18 May 1895 p. 606 portrait.
PEEL, Sir William (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. 2 Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838; commander 27 June 1846; commanded the Daring on the North American and West Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany. 1849; captain of the Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct. 1853; served with the naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5, threw a live shell over the parapet of his battery 18 Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the assault on the Redan 18 June 1855; one of the first recipients of the Victoria cross 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany. 1858; captain of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a naval brigade at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief operations during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in the second relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21 Jany. 1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert 1852. d. Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at Calcutta and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas in painted hall at Greenwich. I.L.N. xxxviii 68 (1861) view of statue at Greenwich; E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in India, account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign (1862) portrait.
PEEL, William Yates (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart. 1750–1830). b. Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P. Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge 1831–5; M.P. Tamworth again 1835–47; comr. of board of control 2 June 1826 to 4 June 1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 April 1828 to 5 Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury 31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and 31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. d. Bagington hall, Warwickshire 1 June 1858. G.M. Aug. 1858 p. 191.