Major Arthur George Villiers Peel (27 February 1869 – 25 April 1956) was a British Member of Parliament and writer on politics and economics.

Career

George Peel was the son of

Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, (3 August 182924 October 1912) was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1895. He was Speaker of the House of Commons from 1884 until 1895 when he was raised to the ...

, a senior

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politician, and Adelaide Dugdale. On 6 October 1906 at the age of 38 Peel married Lady Agnes Lygon. He entered

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in 1886, and wrote extensively on politics and economics. Peel was returned as MP for Spalding in the by-election of 1917, sitting until the constituency was abolished in 1918, and was Clerk to the Treasury. Peel died aged 88 on 25 April 1956.

Bibliography

He authored or edited many publications, normally under the name George Peel, or abbreviated "G.P." or "G.V.P.":British Library catalogue
/ref> * ''Sir Robert Peel, from his private papers'', Edited for his trustees by C S Parker ; With a chapter on his life and character by his grandson, the Hon George Peel, John Murray, 1899 * ''The Enemies of England'', Edward Arnold, 1902 * ''The Friends of England'', Murray, 1905 * ''The Future of England'', Macmillan & Co., 1911 * ''The Tariff Reformers'', Methuen & Co., 1913 * ''The Reign of Sir Edward Carson'', P. S. King & Son, 1914 * ''The Private letters of Sir Robert Peel'', Edited by George Peel, John Murray, 1920 * ''The Economic Impact of America'', Macmillan & Co., 1928 * ''The Economic Policy of France'', Macmillan & Co., 1937 * ''The Work of Sir Robert Peel and its lessons for to-day'', Cobden-Sanderson, 1938 * ''The War: the root and the remedy'', England, 1941 * ''The Fiscal Policy of Europe'', London, 1946 * ''Imperial Preference, 1894-1945'', London, 1945 * ''How Free Trade Will Come'' Free Trade Union Pamphlets, London, 1947 He contributed several biographies to the Dictionary of National Biography, including those for: * Peel, Robert (1750–1830) * Peel, Robert (1788–1850) * Campbell, George Douglas

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peel, George 1869 births 1956 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1910–1918 Younger sons of viscounts Deputy Lieutenants of Warwickshire Presidents of the Oxford Union