On the retirement of Henry Brand in 1884, Peel was elected Speaker. Throughout his career as Speaker, says the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, "he exhibited conspicuous impartiality, combined with a perfect knowledge of the traditions, usages and forms of the House, soundness of judgment, and readiness of decision upon all occasions." In 1895 he retired and was created Viscount Peel. In 1896 he was chairman of a Royal Commission into the licensing laws. The Peel Report recommended that the number of licensed houses should greatly reduced. This report was a valuable weapon in the hands of reformers.
He married Adelaide Dugdale, and they had a son William Wellesley Peel, who succeeded his father as Viscount Peel and was later created Earl Peel in 1929.
ARTHURWELLESLEYPEELPEEL, 1ST Viscount (1829-), English statesman, youngest son of the great Sir Robert Peel, was born on the 3rd of August 1829, and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford.
He unsuccessfully contested Coventry in 1863; in 1865 he was elected in the liberal interest for Warwick, for which he sat until his elevation to the peerage.
Lord Peel married in 1862, and had'four sons and two daughters (married to Mr J. Rochfort Maguire and to Mr C. Goldman).
Wellesley, who became colonel in the army on 3 May, was unable to accompany it, but he overtook it at the Cape, and landed with it at Calcutta on 17 February 1797.
Wellesley was appointed to the staff of the Kent district on 30 October, and a month afterwards he was given command of a brigade in the expedition to Hanover under Lord Cathcart.
Wellesley concurred in the principle of it, thinking that, as the French had not been cut off from Lisbon, it was best to allow them to evacuate Portugal; and on 22 August he signed, by Dalrymple's desire, the armistice which was the prelude to it, though he disapproved of some details.
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