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==Memorials== {{more citations needed|section|date=June 2018}}<!--most entries are not cited--> ===Statues=== Statues of Sir Robert Peel are found in the following British and Australian locations: {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * [[Peel Memorial, Bury|Memorial]] outside the Robert Peel public house in [[Bury, Greater Manchester|Bury]] town centre, his birthplace.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.panoramio.com/photo/11220446 |title=Sir Robert Peel Statue Bury |publisher=Panoramio.com |access-date=26 August 2010 |archive-date=21 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821094129/https://www.panoramio.com/photo/11220446 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Parliament Square]], London. * Peel Park in [[Accrington]]. * [[Winckley Square]] in [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] city centre. * [[West Midlands Police]] Training Centre, [[Edgbaston]], Birmingham. * [[Piccadilly Gardens]] in Manchester. * [[Montrose, Angus|Montrose]] town centre. * [[Woodhouse Moor]], [[Leeds]]. * [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]] town centre. * [[George Square]], Glasgow. * [[Peel Park, Bradford]]. * [[Wool Exchange, Bradford]]. * Peel Centre, [[Hendon Police College]], [[Hendon]]. * [[Gawsworth Old Hall]], Cheshire. * High Street, [[Dronfield]] * [[Sandy Bay, Tasmania]], Australia. }} <gallery> File:Peel Memorial.jpg|Statue by [[Edward Hodges Baily]] in Bury File:Robert Peel statue.jpg|[[Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square|Statue]] in [[Parliament Square]], London File:Statue of Sir Robert Peel, Piccadilly Gardens - geograph.org.uk - 1278311.jpg|Statue in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester File:Peel Statue Leeds.jpg|Statue in [[Woodhouse Moor]], Leeds File:Robert Peel statue, Glasgow.JPG|Statue in [[George Square]], Glasgow File:Robert Peel statue, Peel Pk, Bradford-800.jpg|Statue in [[Peel Park, Bradford]] File:Sir Robert Peel, Gawsworth, East Cheshire.JPG|Statue near [[Gawsworth Old Hall]] File:Statue of Robert Peel in Edgbaston, Birmingham.jpg|Statue in [[Edgbaston]], Birmingham </gallery> ===Public houses and hotels=== The following [[public house]]s, bars or hotels are named after Peel:<ref>The UK-based Peel Hotels group are named after their founders Robert and Charles Peel, not Sir Robert Peel.</ref> ====United Kingdom==== [[File:Sir Robert Peel pub Leicester.jpg|thumb|upright=1.14|Sir Robert Peel pub, Leicester]] * Sir Robert Peel pub Bury, behind his statue Former Wetherspoon. * Sir Robert Peel public house, [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sir-Robert-Peel-Public-House/197326926954183/|title=The Sir Robert Peel / Public House|work=Facebook|access-date=7 May 2014|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505211922/https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sir-Robert-Peel-Public-House/197326926954183/|url-status=live}}</ref> * Peel Hotel, [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeelhotel.com/|title=Peel Hotel Aldergate Tamworth: Hotels – welcome|website=Thepeelhotel.com|access-date=20 September 2008|archive-date=11 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311185029/http://www.thepeelhotel.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Sir Robert Peel public house, Edgeley, Stockport, Cheshire. * Sir Robert Peel public house, [[Heckmondwike]], West Yorkshire. * Sir Robert Peel public house,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.everards.co.uk/pubs/sir_robert_peel_125/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927080423/http://www.everards.co.uk/pubs/sir_robert_peel_125/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2006 |title=Sir Robert Peel, Leicester, Leicestershire |publisher=Everards |access-date=26 August 2010 }}</ref> [[Leicester]]. * Sir Robert Peel public house, Malden Road, London NW5. * Sir Robert Peel public house, Peel Precinct, Kilburn, London NW6. * Sir Robert Peel public house, London SE17. * Sir Robert Peel Hotel, [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]]. * Peel Park Hotel, Accrington, Lancashire. * Sir Robert Peel public house [[Rowley Regis]]. * Sir Robert Peel public house, [[Southsea]]. * Sir Robert Peel public house,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thepotteries.org/inns/longton/sir_robert_peel.htm |title=Sir Robert Peel – Dresden – Longton |publisher=Thepotteries.org |access-date=26 August 2010 |archive-date=19 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619214900/http://thepotteries.org/inns/longton/sir_robert_peel.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Stoke-on-Trent]]. * Sir Robert Peel public house, [[Kingston upon Thames]], Surrey. * Sir Robert Peel public house, [[Bloxwich]], [[Walsall]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sir-robert-peel.co.uk/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013204107/http://sir-robert-peel.co.uk/ | archive-date=13 October 2007 | title=The Sir Robert Peel – Pub and Restaurant – Bloxwich, Walsall, West Midlands}}</ref> ====Elsewhere==== * The Sir Robert Peel Hotel (colloquially known as "The Peel"), a gay bar and nightclub located at the corner of Peel and Wellington Streets in the Melbourne suburb of [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], in Australia. * The Sir Robert Peel Hotel on the corner of Queensberry Street and Peel Street in the Melbourne suburb of [[North Melbourne, Victoria]], in Australia. * The Sir Robert Peel Motor Lodge Hotel, [[Alexandria Bay, New York]]. ===Other memorials=== * [[Peel Park, Bradford]], is named after Sir Robert Peel. It is one of the largest parks in the city, and indeed [[Yorkshire]]. * The [[Peel Monument, Ramsbottom|Peel Monument]], built on top of Holcombe Hill in [[Ramsbottom]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Bury|Bury]]. * The Sir Robert Peel Hospital in [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]]. * A small monument in the centre of the town of [[Dronfield]] in Derbyshire. Nearby is the Peel Centre, a community centre in a former Methodist church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dronfield.gov.uk/PeelCentre.shtml |title=Peel Centre |access-date=19 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211182948/http://www.dronfield.gov.uk/PeelCentre.shtml |archive-date=11 December 2008}}</ref> * Peel Streets in the CBD of [[Melbourne]], and in [[Collingwood, Victoria|Collingwood]], both in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia. * Peel Street in the CBD, [[Adelaide, South Australia]]. * Peel Street in Prospect, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. * [[Peel Street (Montreal)|Peel Street]] in Montreal and its [[Peel station (Montreal Metro)|Peel Metro station]]. The street also features a high-rise residential building named Sir-Robert-Peel. * The [[Peel River (New South Wales)|Peel River]] in [[Tamworth, New South Wales]], Australia. * [[Peel High School]] in [[Tamworth, New South Wales]], Australia. * [[Peel, New South Wales|Peel]] in [[Tamworth, New South Wales|New South Wales]], Australia. * Robert Peel Primary School in [[Sandy, Bedfordshire]]. * A British steamer named SS ''Sir Robert Peel'', based in Canada, was burned by American forces on 29 May 1838, at the height of American-Canadian tensions over the [[Caroline affair|''Caroline'' affair]]. * [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]]-raised musician [[Julian Cope]] sings "the king and queen have offered me the estate of Robert Peel" on the song "Laughing Boy", from his 1984 LP ''[[Fried (album)|Fried]]''. * The right wing of the [[Trafford Centre]] is called Peel Avenue, named after Robert Peel. * The official mascot of [[Bury Football Club]] is Robbie the Bobby, in honour of Sir Robert Peel. * One of the buildings which make up the [[Home Office]] headquarters, [[2 Marsham Street]], is named Peel. * The Peel building, situated on Peel Campus of the [[University of Salford]]. * The Sir Robert Peel monument on the corner of George and High Streets, Montrose, Scotland * Peel Crescent in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. * [[Peel Street, Hong Kong]], a small street in Hong Kong. * The [[Peel River (Canada)|Peel River]] in the [[Yukon]] and [[Northwest Territories]], Canada. * Peel Street in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, is named in his honour. * The [[Regional Municipality of Peel]] (originally Peel County) in [[Ontario]], Canada. ** [[10 Peel Centre Drive]] and Peel Centre. ** [[Peel Regional Police]]. ** [[Peel Regional Paramedic Services]]. ** [[Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board]]. ** [[Peel District School Board]]. ** former [[Peel Memorial Hospital]] (closed 2007) in [[Brampton, Ontario]]. * New Zealand pioneer [[Francis Jollie]] settled in [[Canterbury Region|Canterbury]] in 1853 and named [[Peel Forest Park|Peel Forest]] after the former prime minister, as he had died in the year that Canterbury was founded. The [[Mount Peel|adjacent mountain]] and the [[Peel Forest|settlement that formed]] also took Peel's name.{{sfn|Reed|2010|p=310}} * The names "bobbies" and "peelers" for [[British police]] officers.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/bobby |title=Bobby |encyclopedia=Britannica |access-date=12 February 2021 |quote=Bobby, slang term for a member of London’s Metropolitan Police derived from the name of Sir Robert Peel, who established the force in 1829. Police officers in London are also known as “peelers” for the same reason. |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225013244/https://www.britannica.com/topic/bobby |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[Peel's Acts]] are named after Peel. ===In literature=== [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] gave her tribute to Sir Robert in her poetical illustration ''Sir Robert Peel'' to [[Thomas Lawrence]]'s portrait in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837.<ref>{{cite book |last=Landon |first=Letitia Elizabeth |title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA14 |section=poetical illustration |page=10 |year=1836 |publisher=Fisher, Son & Co. |access-date=6 December 2022 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206114609/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA14 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Landon |first=Letitia Elizabeth |title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA16 |section=picture |year=1836 |publisher=Fisher, Son & Co. |access-date=6 December 2022 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206114610/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=39BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA16 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{Wikisource|Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837/Sir Robert Peel|Sir Robert Peel,<br />a poetical illustration<br /> by L. E. L.}} Robert Peel is a secondary character in the novel ''Dodger'' by [[Terry Pratchett]]. Peel is an unseen nemesis of [[Harry Flashman]] in the humorous [[The Flashman Papers|Flashman novels]] by George MacDonald Fraser. A young Flashman regularly battled with Peel's nascent London police force.
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