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under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington
unveiled 1875. _J. H. Bell’s British folks and British
India_ (1891) 39, 42, 131; _Joseph Pease, a memoir_ (1872);
_Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 503–7;
_I.L.N. lx_ 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour
xxi_ 375 _portrait_; _J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway
system_ (1875); _Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp._ 321, 328, _view of
statue_.
PEASE, JOSEPH WALKER (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866).
_b._ Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1
East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to
July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull
7 Feb. 1874. _d._ Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.
PEAT, DAVID. _b._ Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy
2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had
frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was
several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29
July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard
1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug.
1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ end of Dec. 1880.
PEBODY, CHARLES (son of Charles Pebody). _b._ Watford or
Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor
at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford
Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying
Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented
with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at
Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial
paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at
work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882;
wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under
signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post.
_d._ Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. _bur._
Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. _Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p._ 5, _4
Nov. p._ 4.
PECHELL, SIR GEORGE RICHARD BROOKE, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir
Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). _b._ London 30 June
1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded
the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820;
commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822;
gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen
Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton
13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded
his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852,
and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820.
_d._ 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.
PECHELL, HORACE ROBERT (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone,
London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). _b._ 12 May
1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All
Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of
Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary
in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. _d._
Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.
PECHEY, WILLIAM CRISP. _b._ Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838;
educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng.
1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort
Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868
to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji
islands 1871. _d._ at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st.
Walthamstow 22 June 1871. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 236
(1871).
PECK, CHARLES. _b._ Beverley 1801; a jockey; horse trainer at
Highfield, near Malton in succession to William Perren for 6
years; had some breeding mares of his own; a trainer at Grove
house, Malton from 1842 for sir R. Bulkeley, lord Glasgow,
Stanhope Hanke, Mr. Wentworth, major Yarburgh, and Mr. Pedley;
for Mr. Wilkins trained Old Dan Tucker and Napoleon, which won
the Great Yorkshire stakes 185- and 1859; trained Mr. Graham’s
horses 1863. _d._ Malton 16 Jany. 1867. _bur._ Malton 21 Jany.
_Sporting Review Feb. 1867 pp._ 85–6.
PECK, LILLIAN or LYDIA ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Wm. Priest Peck of
Chelmsford, Wesleyan minister). _b._ 1850; under the pseudonym
of Ruth Elliott she wrote Margery’s Christmas box 1875; Little
Ray and her friends 1877; James Daryll 1877; Undeceived, Roman
or Anglican, a story of English ritualism 1877; John Lyon 1879;
My first class 1881; A voice from the sea 1881; Talks with
the bairns 1882; Auriel 1883; Fought and won 1885; Archie and
Nellie 1885; Twixt promise and vow 1886. _d._ New London road,
Chelmsford 25 Oct. 1878.
PECKHAM-MICKLETHWAIT, SIR SOTHERON BRANTHWAYT, 1 Baronet
(younger son of Nathaniel Micklethwait of Beeston, Norfolk
1760–86). _b._ 30 May 1786; cornet 3 dragoon guards 15 Jany.
1803, captain 5 Jany. 1807, sold out 15 Sept. 1808; assumed
surname of Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet
27 July 1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty
and the duchess of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of
Sussex 1848. _d._ Iridge place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.
PECKOVER, ALGERNON (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech,
Cambridge, _d._ 1833). _b._ 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of
Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other
places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s
Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. _d._
10 Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.
PEDDER, JAMES. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went
to U.S. of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture
of sugar in Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an
agricultural journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844
to death; author of a book of conversations entitled Frank,
which ran to several editions; The yellow shoestrings, or
obedience to parents 1814, 17 editions; Report made to the beet
sugar society of Philadelphia on the culture in France of the
beet root 1836; The farmer’s land measure, New York 1854. _d._
Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.
PEDDER, JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and
tutor, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham
Dec. 1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of
North Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. _d._ 13 Somerset place, Walcot,
Bath 12 July 1890.
PEDDER, SIR JOHN LEWES (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle
Temple, barrister). _b._ 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B.
1822; barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van
Diemen’s Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a
dispute with sir William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s
Land in 1848; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8
Bedford square, Brighton. _d._ 24 March 1859.
PEDDIE, JOHN. Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept.
1813; captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825,
placed on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827;
lieut. col. 31 foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April
1832; lieut. col. 90 foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840;
K.H. 1832. _d._ 1873.
PEDDIE, JOHN CROFTON. _b._ 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814,
major 5 Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March
1849, sold out 27 Dec. 1850. _d._ Douglas, Isle of Man during a
service in St. Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.
PEDDIE, JOHN DICK (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet).
_b._ Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years;
architect 1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn
st. Edinb., the Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank,
Glasgow; A.R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of
council; M.P. Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock
burghs 1885; a leader in the disestablishment movement 1880.
_d._ 33 Buckingham terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. _Scotsman 13
March 1891 p._ 5.
PEDDIE, WILLIAM (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister
1758–1845). _b._ 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ.
of Edinb. and Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to
preach May 1827; colleague to his father at the Bristo street
secession chapel, Edinb. Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel
11 Oct. 1845 to death; moderator of the United Presbyterian
synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson college, Pennsylvania 1843;
edited the United Presbyterian magazine several years; edited
Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a memoir 1846. _d._ Edinburgh
23 Feb. 1893. _United Presbyterian Magazine April 1893._
PEDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ.
Independent college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street
1848; pastor of Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1857; pastor at Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to
death; author of The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest
times to the end of 1860, 1863. _d._ Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872.
_H. J. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 304.
PEDLEY, MR. _b._ Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses
which he trained at Danebury; _m._ a daughter of John Gully
and so became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others
being John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner;
won the Derby with Cossack 1847. _d._ about 1872. _W. Day’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 76–8.
PEEBLES, ALEXANDER MARSHALL. _b._ 1837; an architect at Highbury
hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London;
member of common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook
1882–5; F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London
1887 to death, built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and
vegetable market. _d._ 23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood,
London 21 May 1891. _bur._ Kensal green 25 May. _I.L.N. 6 June
1891 p._ 735 _portrait_; _City Press 23 May 1891 p._ 2.
PEEBLES, ALLAN LAING (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot).
_b._ Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut.
Devonshire regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death;
adjutant of the first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894;
inspector of small arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in
charge of Maxim battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and
other eastern languages; made improvements in the maxim gun;
with the Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river
Panjkora, Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.
PEEBLES, JAMES. _b._ 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28
Jany. 1858. _d._ 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.
PEEBLES, PHILIP CADELL. _b._ 23 April 1842; head of the firm of
A. M. Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire,
paper manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for
illustrated journals; made improvements in dry printing; member
of hon. artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name
of Mr. Renfrew from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two
years’ old plate at Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great
Lancashire handicap in 1888. _d._ 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park,
London 26 Nov. 1895. _bur._ Kensal green 30 Nov. _I.L.N. 7 Dec.
1895 p._ 694 _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895
p._ 467 _portrait_.
PEED, THOMAS THORPE. _b._ 1825; educ. Royal academy of music
under Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis
to D. F. M. Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a
singing class at the academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic
institution; conducted a lecture on the music of the Beggars’
opera; lessee of the Alexandra theatre, Camden Town, opened 31
May 1873 with his own operetta Marguerite and Robert Reece’s
3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s debt; produced The magic
pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball, music by himself 29
Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto by R. Reece, music
by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon quadrilles 1843;
Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not gold, a song
1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a song 1880.
_d._ Margate 9 Nov. 1888. _I.L.N. xxxv_ 243 (1859) _portrait_.
PEEK, JAMES (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). _b._ 8
June 1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London,
the firm being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the
firm of Peek, Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead,
St. Saviours, London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir
Henry Peek, 1 baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. _d._
Watcombe, Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_
13–17 (1865).
PEEL, ARTHUR (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham,
Lincs.) _b._ 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848,
M.A. 1852; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of
islands of Antigua and Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. _d._ 15
Oct. 1873.
PEEL, JOHN. _b._ Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with
Miss White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole
expense a pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide
reputation by a song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel
with his coat so grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the
old Cumberland tune of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to
music by Metcalfe; Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John
Peel and At the grave of John Peel. _d._ Ruthwaite, Cumberland
13 Nov. 1854. _bur._ Caldbeck churchyard. _S. Gilpin’s Songs of
Cumberland_ (1866) 408–15; _H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin_
(1870) 106; _West Cumberland Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886_.
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
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