Sir Robert Peel (1834-5, 1841-6) - Prime Minister - Parliament

Robert Peel was born in 1788 and educated at Harrow and Oxford. He rose through the ranks after initially entering the House of Commons at the tender age of twenty one. His first spell in office came in 1834 when King William IV dismissed the Whig government and appointed Peel as the new Prime Minister.

And although he had a significant amount of support, he was always being outvoted in the House of Commons and in 1835 he resigned from office. However in 1841 he was invited again to form a Conservative government. After a series of bad decisions which split the Tories up, Peel was forced to resign.

Peel to Wellington on the subject of Catholic Emancipation:
“though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger” and “to maintain a consistent attitude amid changed circumstances is to be a slave of the most idle vanity”.
"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics"

"Constitutional liberty will be best worked out by those who aspire to freedom by their own efforts"

"But it may be that I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour, and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when they shall recuit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice"