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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt

(1750-1830), Politician; father of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel

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Father of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, a politician, industrialist and an early textile manufacturer of the industrial revolution. His father owned a calico-printing firm, Haworth, Peel & Yates in Blackburn. Peel joined the firm and was running it by the age of twenty-three. He established a cotton factory in Tamworth in Staffordshire, and imported workhouse children from London to work there. By the 1790s Peel was one of the country's leading industrialists, employing over 15,000 workers. Peel entered Parliament in 1790 as a Tory MP. He was responsible for the 1802 Health and Morals of Apprentices Act that limited the hours of pauper children, apprenticed in cotton mills, to twelve hours a day.

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The House of Commons 1793-94, by Anton Hickel - NPG 745The House of Commons 1793-94
by Anton Hickel
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'Two sketches for 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8', by Sir John Gilbert - NPG 1383a'Two sketches for 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'
by Sir John Gilbert
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt, by James Hopwood Sr, published by I.W.H. Payne - NPG D5482Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt
by James Hopwood Sr, published by I.W.H. Payne
NPG D5482
'A Complete Turn-Out among the Cabinet-Makers', probably by Henry Heath, published by Samuel William Fores - NPG D48686'A Complete Turn-Out among the Cabinet-Makers'
probably by Henry Heath, published by Samuel William Fores
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt, by John Henry Robinson, after Sir Thomas Lawrence - NPG D5481Sir Robert Peel, 1st Bt
by John Henry Robinson, after Sir Thomas Lawrence
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