Earl Peel - Other Notable Members of The Peel Family

Other Notable Members of The Peel Family

Several other members of the Peel family have also gained distinction:

  • Sir Lawrence Peel, son of Joseph Peel, younger brother of the first Baronet, was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta from 1842 to 1855 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1856.
  • William Yates Peel, second son of the first Baronet, was a politician and served as Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs from 1828 to 1830.
  • Jonathan Peel, fifth son of the first Baronet, was a General in the Army and Conservative politician. He was Secretary of State for War from 1858 to 1859 and 1866 to 1867.
  • Edmund Yates Peel, (son of Jonathan above), a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, who was the father of Frederick Peel, a Colonel in the Army.
  • Archibald Peel, (son of Jonathan above), who was the father of Edward John Russell Peel (1869–1939), a Brigadier-General in the Army,
  • John Peel (1829–1892),(son of Jonathan above), a Lieutenant-General in the Army.
  • Sir Charles Lennox Peel (1823–1899), Clerk of the Council, was the son of Laurence Peel, sixth son of the first Baronet.
  • Sir Frederick Peel, second son of the second Baronet, was a politician and Chief Railway Commissioner.
  • Sir William Peel (1824–1858), third son of the second Baronet, was a Captain in the Royal Navy.
  • Sidney Cornwallis Peel, second son of the first Viscount, sat as Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and was created a Baronet in 1936 (see Peel Baronets).

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