Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda
The following account was written almost 150-years ago, and gives a contemporary picture of the Peel Family, as published in Hoggs' Instructor in the Autumn of 1852, within two years of the death of Prime Minister Peel.
The Peel Family |
Had never heard of this local connection.
Wonderful article - shows what a chage there has been from the age where Britain was becoming "Great" to the debacle of todays British "Statesmen".
What a change in values!
PM Robert Peel's Father said of his own father: "...
he so accurately appreciated the importance of commercial wealth in a national point of view, that he was often heard to say, that the gains to the individual were small compared with the national gain arising from trade."
"Seest thou a man diligent in his business, said he,
he shall stand before kings."
No nepotism, in favour of manufacturing and trade in the National interest, personal gain not a prime concern...I wonder where and at what point these values fell along the wayside.