Archive: Clout, cloth and fame name; We associate the Peels with Sir Robert, twice Prime Minister and founder of the modern police force, but he in fact was the third Robert Peel of the family, and his opportunity to rise to the highest office in the land was largely due to the hard work -mostly industrial -of the two Robert Peels before him, explains Chris Upton.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: April 3, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: Chris Upton

We tend to associate cotton mills -the dark, Satanic variety of William Blake's poem -with the north of England. That indeed is where they predominated, but the geography of industrialisation could easily have been very different.

There were plenty of attempts to convert Staffordshire into a county of millworkers too. Had it come off, it would have created a very different landscape around the towns to the north of Tamworth.

A single family was at the forefront of these efforts, but one with enough clout (and cloth) to re-direct the current of ...

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