Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel

The Right Honourable The Viscount Peel PC
Peel, c. 1890s
Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
In office 26 February 1884 – 8 April 1895
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone Robert Gascoyne-Cecil William Ewart Gladstone Robert Gascoyne-Cecil William Ewart Gladstone Archibald Primrose
Preceded by	Sir Henry Brand
Succeeded by	Sir William Gully
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs
In office 28 April 1880 – 1 January 1881
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	Matthew White Ridley
Succeeded by	Leonard Courtney
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office 1 August 1873 – 17 February 1874
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	George Glyn
Succeeded by	William Hart Dyke
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
In office 14 January 1871 – 1 August 1873
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	George Shaw-Lefevre
Succeeded by	George Cavendish-Bentinck
Parliamentary Secretary to the Poor Law Board
In office 10 December 1868 – 14 January 1871
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone
Preceded by	Michael Hicks Beach
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Hereditary peerage 9 May 1895 – 24 October 1912
Succeeded by	The 2nd Viscount Peel
Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington
In office 18 December 1885 – 7 August 1895
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Alfred Lyttelton
Member of Parliament for Warwick
In office 24 July 1865 – 18 December 1885
Preceded by	Edward Greaves
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	3 August 1829 (1829-08-03)
Died	24 October 1912(1912-10-24) (aged 83)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal Liberal Unionist
Spouse	Adelaide Dugdale (d. 1890)
Children	7, including William, George, and Sidney
Parents	Sir Robert Peel Julia Floyd
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
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Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, PC (3 August 1829 – 24 October 1912), was a British Liberal politician, who 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.