Sir Robert Peel fonds [textual record (microform)]

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Sir Robert Peel fonds [textual record (microform)]

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Fonds

Date:

1841-1845.

Reference:

MG21-Add.MSS.-40429-40555-(selections)

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

104812

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Sir Robert Peel fonds
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Fonds includes:

11 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1841-1845.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 microfilm reel : negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of microfilmed selections relating to Canada from the correspondence of Sir Robert Peel during his great ministry of 1841-1846. This material is located on microfilm reel A-21.

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Peel, Robert, 1788-1850
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Day, Dominick

Bagot, Charles, Sir, 1781-1843
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Peel, Robert, 1788-1850 : Statesman. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bart. (1788-1850) was born on 5 February 1788. He was the eldest son of Robert (afterwards Sir Robert) Peel (1750-1830), manufacturer and Member of Parliament, by his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of William Yates, a partner in the firm of Haworth, Peel, and Yates, cotton manufacturers of Bury, Lancashire. He was marked and prepared by his father to be a statesman. Educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, Peel entered Parliament in 1809 at the age of 21. His political career included appointments as under-secretary of state for War and the Colonies, 1810-1812; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1812-1818; Home Secretary, 1822-1827, 1828-1830; and Prime Minister, 1834-1835, 1841-1845, 1845-1846. He is especially noted for effecting important reforms in the criminal law, reorganizing the Bank of England, and repealing the corn laws. He died, 2 July 1850, as the result of a fall from his horse four days earlier.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid provides a list of the material in the order in which it appears on the microfilm. MSS0599-5 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002413.pdf

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General Note:

Documents created in: London, England.

Custodial history:

Four hundred and thirty-seven volumes of correspondence and papers, official and private, of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bart. (1788-1850), were presented to the British Library in 1922 by the Peel Trustees. They were catalogued as Additional Manuscripts 40181-40617. Selections relevant to the history of Canada were made from ten of the volumes and microfilmed in 1955 for the National Archives of Canada.

Location of originals note:

Originals are in the British Library, London, England.
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Canada - Officials and employees

Prime minister - Great Britain, 1841-1845 Sir Charles Bagot, 1841-1843

Colonial administrators - British North America, [1841-1845] Lower Canada. Provincial Secretary, 1842

Governors general - British North America, [1841-1845] Thomas Murdoch, 1842

Great Britain - Politics and government, 1841 Canada. Civil Secretary, 1842

Political parties - Great Britain, 1841 Sir Charles Metcalfe, 1843

Colonial administrators - Selection and appointment, [1841-1845] Lord Stanley, 1841-1845

Applications for positions, 1841 Great Britain. Secretary of War and Colonies, 1841-1845

Canada - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment, 1841 George William Hope, 1843-1845

Great Britain - Diplomatic and consular service, 1841 Great Britain. Under-Secretary for War and Colonies, 1843-1845

Great Britain - Peerage, 1841, 1844 Lord Worsley, 1843-1845

Lower Canada - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment, 1842 Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, 1843-1845

Great Britain - Officials and employees, [1841-1845]

Legislators - Great Britain - Selection and appointment, 1843-1845

Governors general Canada

Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne

Canada 1841-1867
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Private

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MG21-Add.MSS.-40429-40555-(selections)
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Microfilm reel A-21

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