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This was the Peelite duke whose father had founded the Newcastle scholarship at Eton, and who himself accompanied the Prince of Wales to Canada in 1859.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

Of the Peelite group the Duke of Argyll and Canning remained.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John

Suppose I were to start as a Peelite?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various

Originally a Conservative, he had become a freetrader with Sir Robert Peel, and for the next few years was a prominent member of the Peelite party.

From Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 by Anonymous

To this must be added:—President of the Board of Trade, Postmaster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, all in Peelite hands.

From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox