Editing Robert Peel (section)

==Early life==
Peel was born at Chamber Hall, [[Bury, Lancashire]], to the industrialist and parliamentarian [[Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet]], and his wife Ellen Yates. His father was one of the richest textile manufacturers of the early [[Industrial Revolution]].<ref>Ramsay, ''Sir Robert Peel'', pp. 2–11.</ref> The family moved from Lancashire to [[Drayton Manor]] near [[Tamworth, Staffordshire]]; the manor house has since been demolished, and the site occupied by [[Drayton Manor Theme Park]].<ref>Clark, ''Peel and the Conservatives: A Study in Party Politics 1832–1841'', 490; Read, ''Peel and the Victorians'', 4, 119.</ref>

Peel received his early education from a clergyman tutor in Bury and at a clergyman's local school in Tamworth.<ref name="DNB"/> He may also have attended [[Bury Grammar School]] or [[Hipperholme Grammar School]], though evidence for either is anecdotal rather than textual.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Houseman|first=J. W.|title=An Old Lithograph of Some Historical Interest and Importance: The Early Education of Sir Robert Peel|journal=The Yorkshire Archæological Journal|date=1951|volume=37|pages=[https://archive.org/details/YAJ0371951/page/72 72]–79|url=https://archive.org/details/YAJ0371951|access-date=7 July 2019}}</ref> He started at [[Harrow School]] in February 1800.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jenkins |first=T. A. |title=Sir Robert Peel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdocBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22Harrow%22+%22February+1800%22&pg=PA5 |date=1998 |page=5 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |access-date=7 July 2019 |isbn=9780333983430 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

At Harrow, he was a contemporary of [[Lord Byron]], who recalled of Peel that "we were on good terms" and that "I was always in scrapes, and he never".<ref>{{cite book|date=1832|title=The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain|volume=1|page=418|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPVFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22we+were+on+good+terms%22+%22I+was+always+in+scrapes%2C+and+he+never%22&pg=PA418|access-date=7 July 2019|last1=Clarke|archive-date=4 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004013514/https://books.google.com/books?id=lPVFAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22we+were+on+good+terms%22+%22I+was+always+in+scrapes%2C+and+he+never%22&pg=PA418#v=snippet&q=%22Robert%20Peel%22%20%22we%20were%20on%20good%20terms%22%20%22I%20was%20always%20in%20scrapes%2C%20and%20he%20never%22&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> On Harrow's Speech Day in 1804, Peel and Byron acted part of [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', Peel playing [[Turnus]] and Byron playing [[Latinus]].<ref name="DNB"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Hurd |first=Douglas |author-link=Douglas Hurd |title=Robert Peel: A Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22acted+part+of+Virgil%27s+Aeneid%22&pg=PT16 |date=2007 |publisher=Orion |access-date=7 July 2019 |isbn=9781780225968 |archive-date=19 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219100505/https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22acted+part+of+Virgil%27s+Aeneid%22&pg=PT16 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Tom quad Tom tower by Pavel Kliuiev.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Christ Church, Oxford]], which Peel attended 1805–1808, graduating with a double first. He was later MP for the university, 1817–1829.]]
In 1805, Peel matriculated at [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{alox2|title=Peel, (Sir) Robert (Bart.) (1)}}</ref> His tutor was [[Charles Lloyd (bishop)|Charles Lloyd]], later [[Regius Professor of Divinity]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Hurd |first=Douglas |title=Robert Peel: A Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22Charles+Lloyd%2C+later+Regius+Professor%22&pg=PT18 |date=2007 |publisher=Orion |access-date=7 July 2019 |isbn=9781780225968 |archive-date=4 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004014015/https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22Charles+Lloyd%2C+later+Regius+Professor%22&pg=PT18 |url-status=live }}</ref> on Peel's recommendation appointed [[bishop of Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hurd|first=Douglas|date=2007|title=Robert Peel: A Biography|publisher=Orion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22Lloyd+to+draft+a+letter+which+Peel%22&pg=PT89|access-date=7 July 2019|isbn=9781780225968|archive-date=4 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004014016/https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22Lloyd+to+draft+a+letter+which+Peel%22&pg=PT89|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1808 Peel became the first Oxford student to take a double first in Classics and Mathematics.<ref>Ramsay, ''Sir Robert Peel'', 11–12.</ref>

Peel was a law student at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1809.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hurd|first=Douglas|date=2007|title=Robert Peel: A Biography|publisher=Orion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22beginning+to+study+law+in+London+at+Lincoln%27s+Inn%22&pg=PT12|access-date=7 July 2019|isbn=9781780225968|archive-date=19 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219100531/https://books.google.com/books?id=vm5GDgAAQBAJ&q=%22Robert+Peel%22+%22beginning+to+study+law+in+London+at+Lincoln%27s+Inn%22&pg=PT12|url-status=live}}</ref> He also held military commissions as a captain in the Manchester Regiment of [[Militia]] in 1808,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16264|page=827|date=6–10 June 1809}}</ref> and later as lieutenant in the [[Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry]] in 1820.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/peel-robert-1788-1850|title=PEEL, Robert (1788–1850)|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=7 July 2019|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924142319/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/peel-robert-1788-1850|url-status=live}}</ref>