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William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel

William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel (1867-1937) was a British politician who served as Secretary of State for India twice in the 1920s and as Lord Privy Seal in 1931.

The son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, 1st Viscount Peel and grandson of Sir Robert Peel, he inherited his father's Viscountcy in 1912, before being raised to the Earldom in 1929.


|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Edwin Samuel Montagu | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Secretary of State for India
1922–1924 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
The Lord Olivier

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Frederick William Jowet | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |First Commissioner of Works
1924–1928 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
The Marquess of Londonderry

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
The Earl of Birkenhead | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Secretary of State for India
1928–1929 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
William Wedgwood Benn

|- style="text-align: center;" | width="30%" |Preceded by:
Thomas Johnston | width="40%" style="text-align: center;" |Lord Privy Seal
1931 | width="30%" |Succeeded by:
The Lord Snowden





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