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Frederick Peel
Sir Frederick Peel (1823-1906), second son of the Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a barrister in 1849. He entered parliament in that year, and with the exception of the period between 1857 and 1859 he remained in the House of Commons until 1865. In 1851-1852 and again in 1853-1855 he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; from 1855 to 1857 he was Under-Secretary of State for War; and from 1859 to 1865 he was Secretary to the Treasury. He became a Privy Councillor in 1857 and was knighted in 1869. Sir Frederick Peel's chief service to the state was in connection with the railway and canal commission. He was appointed a commissioner on the inception of this body in 1873, and was its president until its reconstruction in 1888, remaining a member of the commission until his death on the 6 June 1906.
From the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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