Robert Peel

1750 - 1830  (80 years)    Has 14 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Robert Peel
  Birth	25 Apr 1750	Peelfold, Lancashire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 May 1830	Drayton Manor
  Person ID	I132744	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2009

  
  

  Father	Robert Peel,   b. 1723   d. 12 Sep 1785 (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Haworth   d. Mar 1796
  Marriage	28 Aug 1744
  Family ID	F164393	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ellen Yates   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	8 Jul 1783
  eleven children
  Children	1. Mary Peel   d. Jan 1848 + 2. Prime Minister Robert Peel,   b. 5 Feb 1788, Bury, Lancashire, England d. 2 Jul 1850 (Age 62 years) + 3. Elizabeth Peel   d. 16 Jun 1828 + 4. Harriet Eleonora Peel   d. 7 May 1869 + 5. William Yates Peel,   b. 3 Aug 1789   d. 1 Jun 1858 (Age 68 years)   6. Edmund Peel,   b. 8 Aug 1791   d. Yes, date unknown + 7. Rev. John Peel,   b. 22 Aug 1798   d. Yes, date unknown + 8. General Jonathan Peel,   b. 12 Oct 1799   d. 13 Feb 1879 (Age 79 years) + 9. Laurence Peel,   b. 1801   d. 10 Dec 1888 (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F53872	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Dec 2009

  
  

  Family 2	Susanna Clerke   d. 10 Sep 1824
  Marriage	18 Oct 1805
  Family ID	F164396	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2003

  
  

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  a wealthy cotton manufacturer and member of parliament for Tamworth. Robert was educated in London and then entered his father's business. At the age of twenty-three Robert Peel was made a partner and soon afterwards took charge of the company. Peel made full use of the new inventions in the textile industry. However, he was worried how the handloom weavers would respond to these changes and decided to establish a new factory in Tamworth in Staffordshire. He solved the problems of finding workers for his new factory by importing workhouse children from London. Peel's new cotton factory was a great success and the business expanded rapidly. By the 1790s Peel was one of the country's leading industrialists and employed over 15,000 workers. In 1790 he was elected as MP for Tamworth. In the House of Commons Peel supported William Pitt and his Tory government. Peel was aware that some factory owner's treated their young workers very badly. He therefore argued that Parliament needed to find a way of protecting the most vulnerable workers. In 1802 Parliament passed Health and Morals of Apprentices Act. This legislation limited the hours of pauper children, apprenticed in cotton mills, to twelve hours a day. The 1802 Factory Act was largely ineffective and so Peel continued to argue for further reform. With the support of other factory owners, such as Robert Owen, the 1819 Factory Act was passed. This legislation forbade the employment in cotton mills of any children under nine, and limited the hours of those between nine and sixteen to twelve hours per day. 1st Baronet