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About William Peel, 1st Earl Peel
William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel, styled 2nd Viscount Peel from 1912 to 1929, was a British politician who was a local councillor, a Member of Parliament and a member of the House of Lords. After an early career as a barrister and a journalist, he entered first local and then national politics. He rose to hold a number of ministerial positions but is probably best remembered for chairing the Peel Commission in 1936–1937, which recommended for the first time the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.
Everything about William Peel, 1st Earl Peel →- Occupation
- politician, jurist, war correspondent
- Position held
- member of the House of Lords, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 29th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 7, 1867
- Died
- September 28, 1937