Robert Peel was born February 5, 1788, in Bury, England.
Robert was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford.
The young Peel entered politics at the young age of 21 as MP for the Irish rotten borough of Cashel, Tipperary. With a scant 24 voters on the rolls, he was elected unopposed.
For the next decade he occupied a series of relatively minor positions in the Tory governments: Undersecretary for War, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and chairman of the Bullion Committee (charged with stabilizing British finances after the end of the Napoleonic Wars).
He also changed seats twice: first picking up another rotten borough, Chippenham, then becoming MP for Oxford University in 1817.
He later served as MP for Tamworth from 1830 until his death.
He served as Prime Minister from 1834-1835 and 1841-1846.
Peel died on July 2, 1850.
He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary, oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.
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