Now! Then! Tag: Peel, Robert (1788-1850)

Entries for the tag ‘Peel, Robert (1788-1850)’

Conservative statesman, Prime Minister 1834-35 and 1841-46, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1834-35, Home Secretary 1822-27 and 1828-30, seen as father of modern British policing owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police, one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.

15 January 1812: The Leeds authorities foil the first Luddite attack in Yorkshire – at Sheepscar
5 March 1829: Henry Burton of Hotham tells a rowdy public meeting at Beverley to petition parliament against Catholic emancipation and preserve “the Protestant constitution”
22 September 1829: John Broughall, an elderly Jewish pedlar, complains to Sheffield magistrates that he was ejected from the Tontine Inn (Haymarket) for running a shop inside
21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’s Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
19 September 1835: The Leeds Mercury attacks property valuations under the recent Municipal Corporations Act, which facilitate the political careers of men from the centre of town
31 July 1846: Pudsey celebrates repeal of the Corn Laws with a ca. 1725 kg free-trade plum pudding
20 August 1852: Leeds unveils a statue modelled by someone believed to resemble Robert Peel (RIP)

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