William Yates Peel

William Yates Peel (3 August 1789 – 1 June 1858) was a British Tory politician.

William Yates Peel
Personal details
Born	(1789-08-03)3 August 1789
Died	1 June 1858(1858-06-01) (aged 68) Baginton Hall, Warwickshire
Nationality	English
Political party	Tory
Spouse	Lady Jane Elizabeth Moore
Children	16 (six sons, ten daughters)
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge

Peel was the second son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen (née Yates). He was the younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, and the elder brother of Jonathan Peel. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College, Cambridge.^[1] Peel sat as Member of Parliament for Bossiney from 1817 to 1818, for Tamworth from 1818 to 1830, 1835 to 1837 and in 1847, for Yarmouth from 1830 to 1831 and for Cambridge University from 1831 to 1832, and served under the Duke of Wellington as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1828 to 1830 and as a Lord of the Treasury under Wellington in 1830 and again under his brother Sir Robert Peel from 1834 to 1835. In 1834 he was admitted to the Privy Council.

Family

Peel married Lady Jane Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Stephen Moore, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell, and his wife Margaret King, on 8 July 1819 at St Marylebone Parish Church, London. They had six sons and ten daughters, all bar two sons survived childhood.

• Robert Moore Peel (1820 – 17 October 1878)
• Ellen Peel (born 1821)
• William Yates Peel (1822 – 20 January 1879)
• Edmund Peel (born c. 1823, died young)
• Elizabeth Peel (born 4 May 1824)
• Jane Peel (born 14 July 1825)
• Julia Augusta Peel (born 13 July 1826)
• Matilda Katherine Peel (born 8 July 1827)
• Alice Anne Peel (born 10 July 1828)
• Adelaide Elizabeth Peel (born 10 July 1828)
• Henry Peel (born 1 October 1829, died young)
• Octavia Peel (born 1830)
• Emily Peel (born 15 December 1831)
• Frederick Peel (16 August 1833 – 31 March 1915) – father of Arthur Peel (diplomat)
• Francis Peel (1835 – 3 September 1894) – the father of Robert Francis Peel
• Flora Jane Peel (2 March 1837 – 1876)

Jane Elizabeth died in Warwickshire in 1847. Peel survived her by eleven years and died at his residence in Baginton Hall, Warwickshire, in June 1858, aged 68.

References

1. "Peel, William Yates (PL806WY)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peel, Sir Robert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "Peel, Robert (1750-1830)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Peel, George; Curthoys, M. C. "Peel, William Yates (1789–1858)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21767. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Yates Peel

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie The Earl of Desart	Member of Parliament for Bossiney 1817–1818 With: James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie	Succeeded by James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Sir Compton Domvile, Bt
Preceded by Sir Robert Peel, Bt Lord Charles Townshend	Member of Parliament for Tamworth 1818–1830 With: Sir Robert Peel, Bt 1818–1820 Lord Charles Townshend 1820–1830	Succeeded by Lord Charles Townshend Sir Robert Peel, Bt
Preceded by Joseph Phillimore Thomas Wallace	Member of Parliament for Yarmouth 1830–1831 With: George Lowther Thompson	Succeeded by Sir Henry Willoughby, Bt Charles Cavendish
Preceded by The Viscount Palmerston William Cavendish	Member of Parliament for Cambridge University 1831–1832 With: Henry Goulburn	Succeeded by Henry Goulburn Charles Manners-Sutton
Preceded by Lord Charles Townshend Sir Robert Peel, Bt	Member of Parliament for Tamworth 1835–1837 With: Sir Robert Peel, Bt	Succeeded by Sir Robert Peel, Bt Edward Henry A'Court
Preceded by Sir Robert Peel, Bt Edward Henry A'Court	Member of Parliament for Tamworth 1847 With: Sir Robert Peel, Bt	Succeeded by Sir Robert Peel, Bt John Townshend
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Spring Rice	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1828–1830	Succeeded by Sir George Clerk, Bt

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