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The Peelites, also called the Peel faction, were a breakaway political faction of the British Conservative Party from 1846 to 1859. Initially led by Robert Peel, the former Prime Minister and Conserva
Parodic phrenological analysis of Peel, 1850.
Sir Robert Peel
The Earl of Aberdeen
William Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
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William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He began in politics as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Newark and ended as the f
Peelite
…the Peelite faction took most of the blame for their management of the war in the Crimea. The group further lost cohesion with some members including William Ewart Gladstone, Sir James Graham and Sidney Herbert accepting cabinet posts in the new government led by Viscount Palmerston only to resign a few weeks later when the…
Gladstone in 1892
Gladstone in the 1830s
A pensive Gladstone, from the book Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling
Gladstone in 1859, painted by George Frederic Watts