Jonathan Peel

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Jonathan Peel,

Military career

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Peel was commissioned into the

Lieutenant-General

in 1859.

Political career

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Peel's political career started when he was elected Member of Parliament for Norwich in 1826. He lost this seat in 1830 but returned to Parliament the following year as one of two representatives for Huntingdon, a seat he held until 1868.

He served under his brother as

Racing

Apart from his military and political career Peel was also an owner of racehorses, and in 1844 his horse Orlando won the Derby, after another horse, Running Rein, had been disqualified.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

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Peel married, on 19 March 1824, Lady Alice Jane, youngest daughter of Archibald Kennedy, first Marquis of Ailsa, by whom he had eight children, five sons and three daughters. Their second son, Edmund Yates Peel, became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Their fourth son, John Peel, achieved the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Army. Their second daughter Alice married the diplomat Sir Robert Morier. Their youngest daughter, Adelaide Georgiana, married Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph.

Death

He died on 13 February 1879, aged 79, at his home, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, Middlesex, and was buried in Twickenham new cemetery on 19 February. His widow died in 1887.

See also

• Earl Peel

References

Sources

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Peel, Sir Robert" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• Boase, George Clement (1895). "Peel, Jonathan" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Eadie, Emma. "Peel, Jonathan (1799–1879)".
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