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    The Bank Charter Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 32), sometimes referred to as the Peel Banking Act of 1844, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
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    Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
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  • the Bank Charter Act 1844 which was introduced by the late Robert Peel as prime minister. The Act is often called the "Peel Banking Act". It placed strict...
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  • sub-section Banking School theory of crises) approximately every ten years. In 1844, the Bank Charter Act, also known as the Peel's act, was passed. This act was...
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  • Navigation Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. xxiv) Liverpool Gas Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4. c. xxxix) Liverpool Oil Gaslight Company Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4. c. i) This act was...
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    Lords to pass it, and it became the Importation Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 22). On that same night Peel's Irish Coercion Bill was defeated in the Commons...
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    The general election of 1841 was won by the Conservatives with Sir Robert Peel as Prime Minister. Although he had opposed the unpopular income tax during...
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  • following the Bank Charter Act of 1844, the Banking Act was suspended three times following serious financial crises, favoring the Banking School argument, but...
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  • stabilizing the British economy, the ministry of Robert Peel passed the Bank Charter Act of 1844. This Act fixed a maximum quantity of Bank of England banknotes...
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    The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 4), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff, was a law that implemented protectionist...
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    banks were rescued from collapse by the United Kingdom government. The Banking Act 2009 was passed to improve protection for holders of banknotes issued...
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    as the Hurontario LRT, are also underway in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and are expected to be completed by late 2024. 400-series highways make...
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    colour, and initial unpopularity, it became known as "Peel's brimstone". In October 1845, Peel moved to repeal the Corn Laws—tariffs on grain which kept...
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    Isle of Man (redirect from Census Act 1929)
    the merchant, refer exhibit in "House of Manannan", of Isle of Man Museum, Peel.) Later, a Manannán is recorded as the first king of Man in a Manx poem (dated...
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  • government". Peel was a close friend of Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and wrote to advise him that 'If Anthony Eden is banking on the...
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    Ontario, Canada. He also acted as Agent-General for New South Wales in London between 1903 and 1905 and through his ties with the banking institutions helped...
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    Peel's Bill, or the Resumption of Cash Payments Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3. c. 49), marked the return of the British currency to the gold standard, after the...
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  • retrospective economic analysis of Sir John Peel's 1844 act regulating the issue of banknotes: Sir Robert Peel's Act of 1844, Regulating the Issue of Bank Notes...
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    Bank. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 14 May 2016. Peel, Q; et al. (26 March 2010). "Deal shows Merkel has staked out strong role]"...
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  • dependency of the Isle of Man, providing retail, private and business banking services to the local population. Incorporated in 1865, it has operated...
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    largest factories and distribution warehouses are in the suburban environs of Peel and York Regions, but also within the current city: Etobicoke (concentrated...
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    politician and philanthropist who was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. He became the first practising Jew to sit as a Member...
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    Utility. Hearing DJ John Peel mention on-air that he was hungry, Bragg rushed to the BBC with a mushroom biryani, so Peel played "The Milkman of Human...
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    from 1828, and were sold in 1838. Arthur had also become interested in banking and was appointed to the "Court of Directors" of the Bank of Ireland between...
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  • Commission on Banking and Finance (or Porter Commission). Until 1991, Canadian banks were barred from performing trust duties. Amendments to the Bank Act in 1991...
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  • exclusive agent to the US government. Barings was appointed by Sir Robert Peel to supply "Indian corn" (maize) to Ireland for famine relief between November...
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    taxation were now obvious. In 1841, after the election victory of Sir Robert Peel, the exchequer was so depleted that the tax made a surprise return on incomes...
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    Earl of Jersey (1808–1859), who married Julia Peel, a daughter of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel Hon. Augustus John Villiers (1810–1847), married...
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    66 ft). The wave peel angle is one of the main constituents of a potential surfing wave. Wave peel angle measures the distance between the peel-line and the...
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  • immediately caught on and was formally adopted under the aegis of Robert Peel around 1834. Peel is acknowledged as the founder of the Conservative Party, which...
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