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leader in 1846, the
Peelites supported free
trade whilst the bulk of the
Conservative Party remained protectionist. The
Peelites later merged with the...
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Peelite politician and
specialist in
foreign affairs. He
served as
Prime Minister from 1852
until 1855 in a
coalition between the
Whigs and
Peelites,...
- The
Peelites were not free traders, but both the
Peelites and the free
traders were
originally Tories. Thus both the free
traders and the
Peelites tended...
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Including Peelites. "Others" are
mostly Irish Independent Opposition. The
Conservative total votes cast and MPs
includes around 26
Peelites—some reference...
- made up of
Peelites,
despite the fact that the
Whigs contributed hundreds of MPs to the Government's
support in the Commons, and the
Peelites only around...
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Conservatives win the most
seats but
remain divided between Protectionists and
Peelites. This
allowed the Whigs, led by
Prime Minister Lord John Russell, to retain...
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previous election.
There is no
separate tally of
votes or
seats for the
Peelites. They did not
contest elections as an
organised party but more as independent...
- year,
collapsing in December. The
Whigs and
Peelites then
formed a
coalition government under the
Peelite leader Lord Aberdeen.
Though the government...
- 20th centuries.
Beginning as an
alliance of Whigs, free trade–supporting
Peelites, and
reformist Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it...
- humanitarian. Peel did, however,
retain a hard core of supporters,
known as
Peelites, and at one
point in 1849 was
actively courted by the Whig/Radical coalition...
