William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel
- William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel GCSI GBE TD PC (1867–1937) was a British politician who served as Liberal Unionist MP for Manchester South (1900-1906). He was then elected Conservative M.P. Taunton before inheriting his father's title and moving to the House of Lords.
The son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel and grandson of Sir Robert Peel, Peel became active in British politics in the 1880s - moving away from the political Liberalism of his youth to a later career as a senior Conservative cabinet minister. He inherited his father's Viscountcy in 1912, before being raised to the Earldom in 1929.
Lord Peel's later career saw become Secretary of State for India twice in the 1920s and as Lord Privy Seal in 1931.
In 1936-1937 Lord Peel was the chairman of the Peel Commission which presented for the first time in its period as a tne British Mandate of Palestine the solution of partition for the Jewish - Arab conflict in Palestine.
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