George Peel

Major Honourable Arthur George Villiers Peel, normally known as George Peel (27 February 1869 – 25 April 1956) was a British Member of Parliament and writer on politics and economics.

George Peel was the son of Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, a senior British Liberal politician, and Adelaide Dugdale. On 6 October 1906 at the age of 38 he married Lady Agnes Lygon. Graduating from Oxford University, he wrote extensively on politics and economics at a time when the world was in turmoil. He was returned as MP for Spalding in the by-election of 1917, until the constituency was abolished in 1918 and was Clerk to the Treasury.

He died aged 88 on 25 April 1956.