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Ramsay, A. A. W. Sir Robert Peel
London Constable 1971 0094582904 / 9780094582903 Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good
A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small indentation to spine) with dustjacket which has a repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. viii + 383 pages. Portrait frontispiece. First published in 1928, this is still regarded by many good authorities as the best biography of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850) in existence. Peel was the principal architect of the modern Conservative party at a time when the rest of Europe was often at the mercy of revolution. His reputation suffered both before and after his death by his two great policies of Catholic Emancipation and the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Both went against his previously expressed opinions, and both destroyed the unity of the Tory Party. However both proved that his statemanship was of the highest kind, capable of guiding the country out of severe difficulties and dangers to stability. After the Reform Bill of 1832, his new Tory party was joined by both Disraeli and Gladstone, and the basis of his policy was 'a respect for the opinions and wishes of the nation as a whole', and the welfare of his countrymen was the absorbing passion of his life. When he died in 1851, after a riding accident, Wellington said of him 'I never knew a man in whose truth and justice I had a more lively confidence'; Disraeli regarded him as 'the greatest Member of Parliament that ever lived'; Queen Victoria wrote 'The Nation mourns for him as for a father'. **** NOT EX LIB ****
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