Sir Robert Peel

Henrietta Keddie was born into a large Scottish family. Her mother came from yeoman stock, and her father from a working-class family of unskilled labourers, many of whom worked in coal mines. He eventually became...

This she dedicated to the munificent patron of British literature,Sir Robert Peel , then the Prime Minister, who had been instrumental in having her awarded an annual pension of £20 from the Royal Bounty Fund

CN was depicted as Berengaria Montford by Disraeli in Endymion (written in the 1830s but unpublished until 1880). George Meredith said he based the heroine of Diana of the Crossways, 1885, partly on her...

ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...

After several failed attempts, BD was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. When the Corn Laws were repealed, on 26 June 1846, he voiced outspoken criticism of Tory Prime...

HM represents herself in her Autobiography as brokering the successful repeal of the Corn Laws which took place on 26 June 1846, by mediating between Robert Peel and Richard Cobden . Histories of the repeal...

Soon after her first poetry volume, The Star of Attéghéi, appeared, FB was granted, by Prime Minister Robert Peel , an annual pension of £20 from the Royal Bounty Fund for literary achievement in...

Mary Russell Mitford believed by May 1837 that FH had received a pension from the Crown of £100 a year. In fact, Robert Peel , the prime minister, had in the year of her death...

Between the death of Southey , the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth as his successor, CN wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel , to request the position for herself.

Sir Robert Peel , then prime minister, cited MS 's eminence in science and literature and placed her on the Civil List , entitling her to an annual pension of £200.

The vigour and originality of her voice on women's issues requires greater recognition, ranging as it does from the satiric Crinoline, to Contrasted Scenes from Real Life which juxtaposes the earthly lot of Lady Emily Hay

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

Just before this she had received a grant of £100 from Prime Minister Robert Peel , who made reference to her embarrassing pecuniary circumstances.

By the end of the 1840s, having launched their own magazine, the Howitts were again in financial difficulties, compelled to ask friends and relatives for help to tide them over. Particularly embarrassing losses were incurred...