1850

Sir Robert Peel, PM

MP and Prime Minister in the 1830s and 40s. Reorganised the London police force and hence gave rise to the expressions "Peelers" and "Bobbies" for the police. He based the new structure on that of the City of London Police, which carried on as a separate force. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851.

2nd baronet. Born at Chamber Hall, Bury, Lancashire. Son of Sir Robert Peel, also a politician. Died at his home at Whitehall Gardens, following a fall from a horse on Constitution Hill.

There was another statue outside the Hendon Police College, but since redevelopment in 2016 we are not sure of its whereabouts. And there's a statue in Leeds.

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Sir Robert Peel, PM

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Colonial Office - S04 - Peel

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Great Exhibition and Prince Albert

Robert Peel - Embankment

The Peelian principles summarise the ideas that Sir Robert Peel developed to ...

Robert Peel pub

1788 - 1850

Robert Peel statue

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