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RARE “19th Century British Politician” Arthur Peel Hand Written Envelope COA:
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Up for sale the "1st Viscount Peel" Arthur Peel Hand Written Envelope. This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of

Authenticity.

August 1829 – 24 October 1912) was sat in the House of

Commons from 1865 to 1895. He was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1884 until 1895 when

he was raised to the peerage. Peel was the fifth and youngest

son of the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel by

his wife Julia, daughter of General Sir John Floyd, 1st

Baronet, and was named after Arthur

Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Peel

was elected Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick in the 1865 general

election and held the seat until 1885 when it was replaced

under the Redistribution of Seats

Act 1885. From 1868 to 1871 he was Parliamentary

Secretary to the Poor Law Board, and then became Parliamentary

Secretary to the Board of Trade. In 1873–1874 he was patronage

secretary to the Treasury, and in 1880 he became Under-Secretary of State for Home

Affairs in the second Gladstone government.[3] On the retirement of Sir Henry Brand,

Peel was elected Speaker of the House of Commons on 26 February 1884.

In the 1885 general election, Peel was elected for Warwick and Leamington. Throughout his career as Speaker, Edition said,

"he exhibited conspicuous impartiality, combined with a perfect knowledge

of the traditions, usages and forms of the House, soundness of judgment, and

readiness of decision upon all occasions." Though now officially

impartial, Peel left the Liberal Party over the issue of Home Rule and became a Liberal Unionist. Peel was also an important ally of Charles Bradlaugh in Bradlaugh's campaigns to have the

oath of allegiance changed to permit non-Christians, agnostics and atheists to

serve in the House of Commons. Peel retired for health reasons at the 1895 general

election and was created Viscount Peel, of Sandy in

the County of Bedford, with a pension of £4,000 for life. He was presented with the freedom of the City

of London in July of that year. In 1896 he was chairman of a Royal

Commission into the licensing laws. Other members of the Commission disagreed

with part of his report, and he resigned the chair, leaving Sir Algernon West to complete a majority report. However, the report was published in Peel's

name and recommended that the number of licensed houses should be greatly

reduced. This report was a valuable weapon in the hands of reformers.