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Robert Peel

1788–1850

Robert Peel was a British statesman who twice served as prime minister and helped create modern Conservative politics. He established the Metropolitan Police, reformed criminal law and repealed the Corn Laws, splitting his party over free trade.

Antonia Fraser’s The King and the Catholics is set in the King and the Catholics examines the struggle that led to Catholic Emancipation in 1829.

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