Robert Peel
Noun
Meaning
British politician (1788-1850)
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Examples
I cannot become another Sir Robert Peel in my Party.
The right hon. Gentleman Sir Robert Peel caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
A friend was felt up by a cop deciding she needed to be frisked outside of the Robert Peel Hotel which happens to be a mostly gay club.
Adelman, Peel and the Conservative Party: 1830–1850, 86–87; Ramsay, Sir Robert Peel, 364. Peel was the first sitting British Prime Minister to have his photograph taken.
Although unpopular at first they proved very successful in cutting crime in London, Ramsay, Sir Robert Peel, 88–89.
After the successful Conservative campaign of 1841, J. W. Croker said in a letter to Peel, "The elections are wonderful, and the curiosity is that all turns on the name of Sir Robert Peel.