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William Peel (other)
William Peel may refer to: *Sir William Peel (Royal Navy officer) (1824–1858), Royal Navy officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross in the Crimean War *William Peel (bishop) William George Peel (185415 April 1916) was the Anglican Bishop of Mombasa in what is now Kenya. He was accused of heresy in the Kikuyu controversy. Biography Peel was born in 1854, educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and ordained in 1875. ... (1854–1916), Anglican bishop in Africa *Sir William Peel (colonial administrator) (1875–1945), British Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States and Governor of Hong Kong * William Peel, 1st Earl Peel (1867–1937), British politician * William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel (born 1947), cross-bench (non-party) member of the House of Lords and Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household * William Yates Peel (1789–1858), British Tory politician {{hndis, Peel, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peel (Royal Navy Officer)
Captain Sir William Peel Victoria Cross, VC Order of the Bath, KCB (2 November 1824 – 27 April 1858) was a British naval officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth forces. He was the third son of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel. Like his father, he was educated at Harrow School. He was made a Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and thus became Sir William Peel. Military career Peel was a Captain (Royal Navy), captain in the Royal Navy, serving with the Naval Brigade during the Crimean War. On 18 October 1854 at the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855), Siege of Sevastopol, he picked up a live shell with the fuse still burning from amongst several powder cases and threw it over the parapet. The shell burst as it left his hands. For this he was awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peel (bishop)
William George Peel (185415 April 1916) was the Anglican Bishop of Mombasa in what is now Kenya. He was accused of heresy in the Kikuyu controversy. Biography Peel was born in 1854, educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and ordained in 1875. After a curacy in Trowbridge, he went out as a missionary to India, where he rose to be principal of Noble College Masulipatam. Appointment to the episcopate as the third bishop of Mombasa came in 1899 — he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day (29 June) 1899 by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. In October 1899 and December 1909 he presented the prizes at the annual Commemoration Day of Monkton Combe School in Somerset, of which his father in law, the Revd R G Bryan, was Principal. After celebrating an ecumenical communion service with Methodists and Presbyterians in Kikuyu, and giving communion to non-Anglicans, he was accused of heresy by Bishop Frank Weston of Zanzibar in the Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peel (colonial Administrator)
Sir William Peel (; 27 February 1875 – 24 February 1945) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong. Early life Peel was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England. He was the son of Rev. W. E. Peel of Boston Spa in Yorkshire. He attended Silcoates School and later Queens' College, Cambridge. Early Colonial Services He became a cadet in the Colonial Service in British Malaya in 1897 and was soon promoted to Acting District Officer of Nibong Tebal in 1898 and Bukit Mertajam in 1899 and Province Wellesley until 1901. His next appointment as Acting Second Colonial Secretary took him to Singapore in 1902 until his return to Penang in 1905 to serve as Acting Second Magistrate and Coroner. After serving as Acting Auditor in 1908 in Penang, he continued his service in various capacities in the Federated Malay States such as Acting Secretary to the Resident of Selangor in 1909 and Acting District Officer Lower Perak in 1910, before returning to Penang a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peel, 1st Earl Peel
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel, (7 January 1867 – 28 September 1937), known as The Viscount Peel from 1912 to 1929, was a British politician, as a local councillor, a Member of Parliament and a member of the House of Lords. After an early career as a barrister and journalist, he entered first local, then national politics. He rose to hold a number of ministerial positions, but is probably best remembered for chairing the Peel Commission in 1936–37, which recommended for the first time the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. The grandson of a Conservative prime minister, he was unusual even for his period in the number of political parties he was elected for. He began as a member, later the leader, of the London locally organised Municipal Reform Party, before being elected as an MP for the Liberal Unionists, then for the Conservative Party, before inheriting his seat in the Lords in 1912. He also serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
William James Robert Peel, 3rd Earl Peel, (born 3 October 1947), styled Viscount Clanfield until 1969, is a British hereditary peer who was a Conservative peer from 15 May 1973 until October 2006 when, on his appointment as Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household, he became a crossbench (non-party) member of the House of Lords. Background and education Lord Peel is the eldest son of Arthur Peel, 2nd Earl Peel, and Kathleen McGrath, daughter of Michael McGrath. He is a great-great-grandson of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel. He attended Ampleforth College, and then went on to the François Rabelais University, University of Tours in France and the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester. Career Lord Peel was a member of the Prince's Council, part of the Duchy of Cornwall, from 1993 to 2006, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 1994 to 2006. He was a member of the Nature Conservancy Council, with English Nature, from 1991 to 1996. He was Game Conservancy Trust, Chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
