Peel, Sir Robert, (1788-1850), Baronet, 2nd Baronet, statesman

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Surname:	Peel
Pretitle:	Sir
Forenames:	Robert
Gender:	Male
Date:	1788-1850
Title:	Baronet
History:	Second baronet, statesman. Prime Minister, 1834-1835 (resigned) and 1841-1846. Other ministerial positions held included Home Secretary (1822-27, 1828-30) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834-35). Is best remembered for organising the original London Police Force (1829) and also introduced an income tax (1842).
Biography:	ODNB link for Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P275654 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P128469 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Robert Peel

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1853-1877: Statue of Sir Robert Peel, Parliament Square	The National Archives, Kew	WORK 20/31
2	1850-1881: Correspondence concerning the Peel Papers and material for a life of Sir Robert Peel	The National Archives, Kew	PRO 30/48/53
3	1934-1935: Portrait of Sir Robert Peel	The National Archives, Kew	MEPO 2/2597
4	1934-1974: Statue of Sir Robert Peel: removal from Aldersgate to Hendon	The National Archives, Kew	MEPO 2/9013
5	1807-51: official and private corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 40181-40617	See HMC Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900, 1982
6	c1813-47: letters to him, mainly from ministers of the Crown	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 62939
7	1823-50: corresp mainly with artists	Cambridge University: Fitzwilliam Museum	MS 2-1949, MSS 1-6/1972	NRA 22840 Peel
8	account, cheque, commonplace and note books letters received	Surrey History Centre	319	NRA 777
9	1825-1850: misc corrsep	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 9708-9987, 10335-10374 Passim
10	1843-48: corresp and papers	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/S4	NRA 25095
11	1828-50: corresp with 4th Earl of Aberdeen	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43061-65
12	1828-29: corresp with 1st Marquess of Anglesey	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D619/26B	NRA 10 Paget
13	1821-28: corresp with 3rd Earl Bathurst	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 57	NRA 20952 See HMC [76] Bathurst MSS
14	1842-50: letters to William Buckland	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	B/Playfair	NRA 11556 Playfair
15	1836-49: letters (51) to William Buckland	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	d61	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
16	1842-49: letters to Sir Henry Bulwer	Norfolk Record Office	BUL	NRA 6790 Bulwer
17	1828-49: corresp with 1st and 2nd Marquesses Camden	Kent History and Library Centre	U840/C208, 250, 411	NRA 8410
18	1846: corresp with 1st Earl Canning	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	Canning papers	NRA 7618 Canning
19	1841-46: corresp (12 items) with Sir Edwin Chadwick	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
20	c1827-46: corresp (9 items) with 2nd Earl of Clare	Keele University Library Special Collections and Archives	addnl	NRA 1248 Sneyd
21	1830-47: corresp with Sir George Clerk	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD18	NRA 29182
22	1835-42: corresp with Sir Thomas Cochrane	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 2276-82 passim
23	corresp with Thomas, Lord Cochrane	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD233	NRA 8150 Cochrane
24	1840-46: letters to 1st Baron Cottesloe	Buckinghamshire Archives	D/FR	NRA 15283 Fremantle
25	1843-46: corresp (53 items) with 1st Marquess of Dalhousie	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD45	NRA 17164 See NRA(S)0805
26	1823-42: corresp with 2nd Earl de Grey	Bedfordshire Archives	L 30/18/41	NRA 6283 Wrest Park
27	1841-46: corresp (15 items) with Benjamin Disraeli	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Disraeli	NRA 842 Disraeli
28	1826-50: letters (10) to Henry Drummond	Alnwick Castle		NRA 836 Percy
29	1826-33: letters (24) to William and Richard Dyott	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D661/10/1/10	NRA 9000 Dyott
30	1829-47: corresp with Earl of Ellenborough	The National Archives	PRO 30/12
31	corresp with Edward Ellice	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS 15047	NRA 883 See NRA(S)1968
32	1813-46: corresp with Maurice FitzGerald	Collection held privately: enquiries to Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	T3075	NRA 29433 FitzGerald
33	1829-30: letters to JF Foster, stipendiary magistrate, Manchester	Manchester Archives and Local Studies		See Accessions to Repositories, 1970
34	1813-40: letters (62) to JL Foster	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	T2519/7	NRA 6701 Skeffington
35	1813-23: corresp (63 items) with John Foster	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 207/39	NRA 6701 Skeffington
36	1830-43: corresp with Sir John Gladstone	Gladstone's Library	Glynne-Gladstone MSS 303, 361-62	NRA 14174 Gladstone
37	1834-50: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 44275, 44650
38	corresp with Sir James Graham	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Dep. 9374	NRA 2634 Graham See Annual Return 1994
39	1813-29: corresp with William Gregory of Coole Park	Emory University Library: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Book Library	Manuscript Collection 624	NRA 43951
40	letters (22) to Grenville family	Huntington Library		See Guide to British MSS, 1982
41	c1835-50: corresp with Earl of Haddington	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRA(S)3503/2/84-177	NRA 10114 Hamilton
42	1846-50: letters (44) to 1st Viscount Halifax	Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York	Halifax papers A4/122	NRA 8128 Wood
43	1826: corresp (1 bundle) with Duke of Hamilton	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRA(S)2177/bundle 5303	NRA 10979 Hamilton
44	1844-47: corresp with 1st Viscount Hardinge	McGill University Archives		NRA 5379 Hardinge
45	1829-48: letters (50) to 1st Viscount Hardinge	McGill University Archives		NRA 7539 Hardinge
46	1832-50: corresp with 1st and 2nd Earls of Harrowby, Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart and William Collins,	Harrowby Manuscripts Trust		NRA 1561 Ryder
47	corresp with Sidney Herbert	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2057	NRA 22080 Herbert
48	1824-42: corresp with John Charles Herries	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 57402	NRA 4798
49	1812-29: corresp with Sir GF Hill and GR Dawson	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D642	NRA 19000 Hill
50	1842-48: letters to GW Hope	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD364	NRA 10172 Hope See NRA(S)1021
51	letters (35) to Lord Houghton	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library		See HMC corresp file 19/2/1987
52	letters to AW Kinglake	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives		See Cambridge Univ Reporter, 12/5/1965, p180
53	1828-45: letters (10) to Sir Edward and Wyndham Knatchbull	Kent History and Library Centre	U951 C14	NRA 1301 Knatchbull
54	1824-29: letters (18) to Sir Thomas Lawrence	Royal Academy of Arts	LAW	NRA 14837 Royal Academy
55	1822-34: corresp with Prince Lieven	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 47291-96
56	1813-42: letters to Earls of Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 38195
57	1810-26: letters (19) to Earls of Liverpool	British Library, Manuscript Collections	loan 72	NRA 21672
58	1826-49: letters Lord Londonderry	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	D/Lo	NRA 11528 Vane-Tempest-Stewart
59	1830-48: corresp (12 items) mainly with Lord Lyndhurst	Glamorgan Archives	DLY	NRA 11640
60	1821-50: letters to Lord Mahon	Kent History and Library Centre	U1590/S4	NRA 25095
61	1841-44: letters to Sir Charles Augustus Murray	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD261	NRA 14153 See NRA(S)0485
62	1828-46: corresp with Sir George Murray	The National Archives	WO 80
63	1810-48: corresp with Dukes of Newcastle	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
64	1842-43: corresp with 5th Duke of Newcastle	Gladstone's Library	Glynne-Gladstone MSS	NRA 14174 Gladstone
65	letters to Sir John Newport	Duke University: William R Perkins Library	XVIII-G	NRA 29598 Newport
66	1830-41: letters (10) to RA Nisbet-Hamilton	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD205/box 46	NRA 34282
67	1844-48: letters to Josiah Parkes on drainage matters	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	PARKES	NRA 6318 Parkes
68	1825-44: corresp with Sir Thomas Phillipps	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Phillipps-Robinson	NRA 26260
69	letters (14) to Henry Phillpotts	Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives	ED/11	NRA 25909 Phillpotts
70	1842-50: letters (13) to 1st Baron Playfair	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit	L. Playfair	NRA 11556 Playfair
71	1825-47: letters to 4th and 5th Dukes of Richmond	West Sussex Record Office	Add MSS 5424-26	NRA 850 Gordon Lennox
72	1846: corresp with 5th Duke of Richmond	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	Canning papers	NRA 7618 Canning
73	1836-50: corresp with Lord John Russell	The National Archives	PRO30/22
74	1841-47: letters (22) to 3rd Earl of St Germans	Kresen Kernow (formerly Cornwall Record Office)	EL	NRA 28659
75	1822-30: corresp with Sir Walter Scott	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MSS 3895-3913 passim
76	1820-40: letters to Sir John and Sir George Sinclair	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS189	NRA 10552
77	letters to Sidney Smirke on buildings at Drayton	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 59847
78	1832-45: letters to Lord Stanley	Liverpool Record Office	920 Der 14, box 129	NRA 20084
79	letters to John Swinton	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS200	NRA 10561
80	letters to Lord Tweeddale	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 96	NRA 27520
81	1822-42: corresp with Lord Wellesley	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 37298-313 passim
82	1827-46: letters (336) to Duke of Wellington	University of Southampton Library	MS 61	NRA 20085
83	1831-44: letters (18) to 1st Baron Wharncliffe 1834-41: letters (8) to 2nd Baron Wharncliffe	Sheffield City Archives		NRA 1077
84	1813-18: letters to Lord Whitworth	Kent History and Library Centre	U269/O225	NRA 8575 Sackville
85	1836-48: corresp (14 items) with Samuel Wilberforce	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Wilberforce; Don e 164-65	NRA 7132 Wilberforce
86	1811-31: corresp with Sir RJ Wilmot-Horton	Derbyshire Record Office	D3155 (WH2858, 2932)	NRA 27876 Wilmot-Horton
87	1834-44: corresp with Christopher Wordsworth	Lambeth Palace Library	MSS 1822, 2148
88	1830-41: letters among the Winton House papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)		See Annual Report, 1963, App 6
89	letters (c60) from members of his family	Oxford University: Taylor Institution Library		NRA 11664 Taylor Institution
90	letters (19)	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library		See Shy, MSS in WL Clements Library, p15
91	1812-16: letters (12)	National Library of Ireland	Acc 6793	See Annual Return 2008
92	1816-44: misc letters (63 items)	Duke University: William R Perkins Library		See Guide 1980 p427
93	1811-32: deeds, legal papers and corresp rel to Tamworth	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D5368	NRA 40705