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Peckham (RUFUS WILLIAM an English)

RUFUS WILLIAM, an English statesman; youngest son of Sir Robert Peel; born in 1829. He was educated at Eton and Oxford; entered Parliament as member for Warwick and Leamington in 1865; was parliamentary secretary to the Poor-law Board (1868- 1871); secretary to the Board of Trade (1871-1873); patronage secretary to the treasury (1873-1874); under-secretary for the Home Department (1880); and on the retirement of Sir Henry Brand (Viscount Hampden) in 1884, became speaker of the House of Commons. He was created 1st Viscount Peel in 1895.

He died in 1912.