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Peel, Sir Robert
Person · 1788-1850

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service. Peel was one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.

Peavot, Henry George Jesse
Person · 1881-1917

Librarian of the Zoological Society of London. He was killed at the Battle of Arras during the First World War. The Society held and administered a fund for his son, Leslie Peavot (See SEC/9/1/21). He is remembered on the War Memorial at ZSL London Zoo. His wife was Secretary to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell and was temporary Librarian and Clerk of Publications (1961-1918)

Pearson, Robert H C
Person · 1912-

Painter in the Works Department at ZSL London Zoo