Sir Robert Peel
Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769 - 1830
Summary
Portrait of Sir Robert Peel (1750-1830), 1st Baronet, industrialist and politician. He ran the family owned calico printing company Haworth, Peel and Yates in Blackburn. He later set up a cotton factory in Tamworth, Staffordshire, with labour provided by London's workhouse children. He entered Parliament in 1790 as a Tory MP. In 1802 he produced the Health and Morals Apprentices Act limiting the working hours of apprenticed children in cotton mills to twelve hours a day. He was the father of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.
Object Name
Sir Robert Peel
Creators Name
accession number
1909.975
Collection Group
Place of creation
Europe
Support
paper
Medium
engraving
Credit
Gift of Old Manchester Committee, 1909
