This politician commissioned Lord Devon to investigate tenant-landlord relationships in Ireland, and saw his first government fail after the organization of the Lichfield House Compact. Despite serving from two different rotten boroughs, he won early popularity after Perceval chose him to deliver a reply to a speech from the throne. A common rule governing the insanity def
This politician commissioned Lord Devon to investigate tenant-landlord relationships in Ireland, and saw his first government fail after the organization of the Lichfield House Compact. Despite serving from two different rotten boroughs, he won early popularity after Perceval chose him to deliver a reply to a speech from the throne. A common rule governing the insanity defense is named for a man who tried to kill this man, Daniel M'Naghten. This ardent opponent of Catholic Emancipation briefly refused to supplant Lord Melbourne in the Bedchamber Crisis and differentiated his philosophy from that of his patron, the Duke of Wellington, in his Tamworth Manifesto. This man responded to the Potato Famine by repealing the Corn Laws, and is credited as the founder of the Conservative Party. For 10 points, name this British PM whose founding of the Metropolitan Police inspired their nickname of "Bobbies".
This politician commissioned Lord Devon to investigate tenant-landlord relationships in Ireland, and saw his first government fail after the organization of the Lichfield House Compact.
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet