Why was Sir Robert Peel important?

Answer 1

Sir Robert Peel is famous for sponsoring legislation that created a professional police force in London in 1829. Although the British police force wore easily recognizable uniforms, unlike their counterparts on the European Continent, they did not carry guns. The police were known as "bobbies" or Peelers after Sir Robert Peel. However, the term "Peelers" was often considered a derogatory because the British felt that their traditional British liberties were threatened by the professional police, but by the end of the century many Europeans had come to view the police as their protectors, especially the protectors of their property.

Sir Robert Peel, the conservative British Prime Minister from 1834-1835 and 1841-1846 was also famous for overseeing the creation of the Conservative Party from the ruins of the Tory Party. In addition, he re-introduced the Income Tax in 1842 to raise revenue during that economic recession, enacted the 1844 Factory Act, which set safety standards for machinery and restricted the number of hours that children and women could work in factories, and repealing the Corn Laws in 1846 due to the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849), which marked the opening of an era of free trade yet also brought down his ministry.

Answer 2

he was the originator of the modern police force