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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: People from Bacup, People from Haslingden, People from Ramsbottom, People from Rawtenstall, People from Waterfoot, Robert Peel, Jane Horrocks, Marc Pugh, James Duckworth, John Cockerill, Agyness Deyn, Winston Place, Matthew James, Choppy Warburton, Rhodes Boyson, Paul Stephenson, Ray Lowry, Lee Cartwright, Victoria Derbyshire, Alan Rawsthorne, Vincent Broderick, Ernest Tomlinson, Mark Brennan, Sam Aston, Betty Jackson, Ellis Crompton, Natalie Casey, James Campbell McInnes, Fred Cooper (cricketer, born 1921), Jimmy Dickinson, Walter Chadwick, Ian Austin, David Shackleton, Graham Knowles, Robert Scott, Henry Maden, Colin Blant, Bernard Hackett, Jackie Arthur, Leslie Wood, Alan Ormrod, John Ashworth, Edwin Cooper, John Maden, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Hugh Hay, Isaac Hoyle, Fred Smith, Beryl Ingham, Peter Barcroft, Peter Haddon, George Yates, Andy Wharton, Jack Spencer, Harold Rudman, Jason Harris, Russell Cuddihey, Jack Schofield, Joe Pattison, James Saunders, Connie Hyde, Alison Ratcliffe. Excerpt: Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 - 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846. Peel, whilst Home Secretary, helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as "bobbies" (in England) and "Peelers" (in Ireland) to this day. Whilst Prime Minister, Peel repealed the Corn Laws and issued the Tamworth Manifesto, leading to the formation of the Conservative Party out of the shattered Tory Party. Peel was born in Bury, Lancashire, England to the industrialist and Member of Parliament Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet. His father was one of the richest textile manufacturers of the early Industrial Revolution. Peel was educated first at Hipperholme Gr...
