Robert Peel

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 ? 2 July 1850) was the Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. He helped create the modern concept of the police force while Home Secretary (leading to officers being known as "bobbies", in England, or Peelers, in Northern Ireland and in some places in Ireland, to this day), oversaw the formation of the Conserva ...