History UsefulNotes / RobertPeel

He also had a somewhat middling response to the UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine. While he wanted to help Ireland, he was hamstrung by opposition to aiding Ireland in parliamentary. He tired a program of cornmeal combined with public works, but he was deposed as Prime Minister because of the repeal of the Corn Laws just as it got off the ground, with his successor as Prime Minister, Lord Russell, being even less generous to the starving Irish.

** The ''Irish Potato Famine'' mentions his mixed response to the potato blight, his use of the crisis to repeal the corn laws, and well as jokes about the how Prime Minister during a potato famine was named "[[PunnyName Peel]]".
** He appears in "Policing London" where he is shown reforming London's law enforcement services.

* He features in two series of [[WebAnimation/ExtraCredits Extra History]]

* Parodied in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' when it mentions that other cities are calling their Watchmen "Sammies" after Sir Samuel Vimes, a result of Ankh-Morpork trained watchmen taking up positions all over the continent. And by the time of ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' the Watch in Ankh-Morpork are known as "the Old Sam", whereas in English Roundworld the term is "the Old Bill".... Sam Vimes' teacher was named John Keel, which is an obvious reference. You know. Because it rhymes.

'''Sir Robert Peel''', [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever 2nd Baronet]] was the first Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary (leading to officers being known as "bobbies", in England, or Peelers, in Ireland, to this day), oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.

* Parodied in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' when it mentions that other cities are calling their Watchmen "Sammies" after Sir Samuel Vimes, a result of Ankh-Morpork trained watchmen taking up positions all over the continent. And by the time of ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' the Watch in Ankh-Morpork are known as "the Old Sam", whereas in English Roundworld the term is "the Old Bill".... Sam Vimes' teacher was named John Keel, which is an obvious reference. You know. [[CaptainObvious Because it rhymes.]]

'''Sir Robert Peel''', [[KnightFever 2nd Baronet]] was the first Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary (leading to officers being known as "bobbies", in England, or Peelers, in Ireland, to this day), oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party, and repealed the Corn Laws.

He was a strong opponent of Catholic emancipation, but by the time he was in a position to do anything (under his good friend UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington) it was too late to fight the swell of opinion. Initially got off on a bad foot with UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria due to trying to interfere with the appointment of her Ladies of the Bedchamber, which Peel saw as a political appointment (because they were mostly the wives and daughters of his Whig political opponents) and Victoria considered to be outside the remit of Parliament. They mellowed towards each other later on, particularly when Peel became good friends with Prince Albert. He was also subject to a case of ActuallyIAmHim that saved his life--an assassin named Macnaghten mistook Peel's secretary Drummond for the man himself and shot him dead in 1843. (The man's case gave us the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'Naghten_rules first rules]] under UsefulNotes/TheCommonLaw for the InsanityDefense.)

He was a strong opponent of Catholic emancipation, but by the time he was in a position to do anything (under his good friend UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington) it was too late to fight the swell of opinion. Initially got off on a bad foot with UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria due to trying to interfere with the appointment of her Ladies of the Bedchamber, which Peel saw as a political appointment (because they were mostly the wives and daughters of his Whig political opponents) and Victoria considered to be outside the remit of Parliament. They mellowed towards each other later on, particularly when Peel became good friends with Prince Albert. He was also subject to a case of ActuallyIAmHim that saved his life--an assassin named Macnaghten mistook Peel's secretary Drummond for the man himself and shot him dead in 1843.

He was a strong opponent of Catholic emancipation, but by the time he was in a position to do anything (under his good friend UsefulNotes/TheDukeOfWellington) it was too late to fight the swell of opinion. Initially got off on a bad foot with [[QueenVicky Queen Victoria]] due to trying to interfere with the appointment of her Ladies of the Bedchamber, which Peel saw as a political appointment (because they were mostly the wives and daughters of his Whig political opponents) and Victoria considered to be outside the remit of Parliament. They mellowed towards each other later on, particularly when Peel became good friends with Prince Albert. He was also subject to a case of ActuallyIAmHim that saved his life--an assassin named Macnaghten mistook Peel's secretary Drummond for the man himself and shot him dead in 1843.

He was a strong opponent of Catholic emancipation, but by the time he was in a position to do anything (under his good friend TheDukeOfWellington) it was too late to fight the swell of opinion. Initially got off on a bad foot with [[QueenVicky Queen Victoria]] due to trying to interfere with the appointment of her Ladies of the Bedchamber, which Peel saw as a political appointment (because they were mostly the wives and daughters of his Whig political opponents) and Victoria considered to be outside the remit of Parliament. They mellowed towards each other later on, particularly when Peel became good friends with Prince Albert. He was also subject to a case of ActuallyIAmHim that saved his life--an assassin named Macnaghten mistook Peel's secretary Drummond for the man himself and shot him dead in 1843.

Peel's preference for economically liberal policies later in his premiership -- the most notable of which was the repeal of the Corn Laws -- led to the establishment of the Peelite faction of Conservatives, which gradually merged with the Whigs and Radicals into the Liberal Party; one of the most notable leaders of the Liberals, WilliamGladstone, was one of Peel's disciples as a young man.