Background
PEEL, William Robert Wellesley was born in 1866. Son of 1st Viscount Peel.
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William Robert Wellesley PEEL
William Robert Wellesley PEEL, British Member of Parliament.
Education
Harrow; Balliol College, Oxford.
Career
Called to Bar, Inner Temple, 1893. Member of Royal Commission for the Port of London. L. C.C. (Woolwich), 1900-1904.
Justice of the Peace for Bedfordshire. Governor of Victoria University, Manchester. Major in the Bedfordshire Imperial Yeomanry.
Acted as Daily Telegraph correspondent during Graeco-Turkish War. Member of Parliament (Unionist) Southern Div. of Manchester, 1900-1906. Member of Parliament (Unionist) Taunton, since 1909; London County Council (M.R.) Westminster, since 1907.
Politics
Unionist.
Connections
Spouse 1899, Hon. Ella Williamson, daughter of 1st Baron Ashton.
- Father:
- Viscount
- Spouse:
- Honourable Ella Williamson
