Robert Peel
historical figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Peel · Sir Robert Peel · Mr. Peel · this pitiful, shuffling fellow
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman named as a defender of the unreformed system of representation.
As long as the power of the State was centred in the south and west of England, a system which denied representatives to Birmingham or Manchester or Sheffield, whilst it showered representatives on petty Cornish boroughs, might be defended on grounds of expediency by ingenious thinkers such as Paley, or by practical statesmen such as Lord Liverpool or Peel;
” This pitiful, shuffling fellow was the well-known Sir Robert Peel.
by the Act of 1825 sincere individualists, among whom Peel may assuredly be numbered, limited the right of trade combination in order to preserve the contractual freedom of workmen and of masters.