Mr Secretary Peel
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Mr Secretary Peel

The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830

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Mr Secretary Peel

The Life of Sir Robert Peel to 1830

About this book

Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, beginning with Mr Secretary Peel.
As Gash puts it memorably, 'Peel, born in 1788 in the world of Gibbon and Joshua Reynolds, of stage-coaches, highwaymen and the judicial burning of women, died in 1850 in the age of Faraday and Darwin, of Punch, railway excursions, trade unions and income tax...' Over the course of Peel's life Britain was remodeled, and it may be argued that Peel himself did more than any other political figure in reconciling the new forces in society with its older institutions. But as a politician Peel could be a controversial figure, his pragmatism pressing him into unpopular decisions. The son of an industrial millionaire, his instincts were for the cause of good government over narrow party interest. Norman Gash interpreted Peel as the intellectual founder of the modern Conservative Party - an aristocratic administrator and natural consensus politician who believed in courting the urban middle class as well as landowners and farmers.
Mr Secretary Peel carries its subject's story from birth through his entry into politics in Ireland, his early positions in Tory governments, his tenure as Home Secretary from 1822 (which included his establishing of the Metropolitan Police Force) and up to the struggles over the issue of Catholic Emancipation.
'A rich and perceptive portrait of a statesman in the making,' Philip Ziegler, Telegraph.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2011
eBook ISBN
9780571277360
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. ILLUSTRATIONS
  8. The Peel Family Tree
  9. INTRODUCTION
  10. CHAPTER 1 : THE PEELS OF TAMWORTH
  11. CHAPTER 2 : HARROW AND OXFORD
  12. CHAPTER 3 : POLITICAL OVERTURE
  13. CHAPTER 4 : THE GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND
  14. CHAPTER 5 : AGITATION AND ORDER
  15. CHAPTER 6 : LAST YEARS IN IRELAND
  16. CHAPTER 7 : THE PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE
  17. CHAPTER 8 : BACK IN HARNESS
  18. CHAPTER 9 : LEGAL REFORM
  19. CHAPTER 10 : PUBLIC DISCONTENTS
  20. CHAPTER 11 : DEADLOCK IN IRELAND
  21. CHAPTER 12 : THE END OF LORD LIVERPOOL’S ADMINISTRATION
  22. CHAPTER 13 : THE DUKE’S CABINET
  23. CHAPTER 14 : LAW AND POLICE
  24. CHAPTER 15 : THE CRISIS IN IRELAND
  25. CHAPTER 16 : CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION
  26. CHAPTER 17 : THE LAST OF THE OLD RÉGIME
  27. ENVOI
  28. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  29. INDEX
  30. Plates
  31. About the Author
  32. Copyright