See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

ROBERT See also:

• ROBERT TORRENS (1780-1864)
• TORRENS, SIR ROBERT RICHARD (1814-1884)
• TORRENS, WILLIAM TORRENS

TORRENS (1780-1864)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English soldier and economist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland in 1780 . He entered the See also:

• MARINES (from Lat. mare, sea)

Marines in 1797, became a See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in 18o6, and See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major in 1811 for bravery in See also:

• ANHALT

Anhalt during the Walcheren expedition . He fought in the See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula, becoming See also:

• LIEUTENANT

lieutenant-See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel in 1835 and retiring as colonel in 1837 . After abortive attempts to enter See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament in 1818 and 1826, he was returned in 1831 as member for See also:

• ASHBURTON
• ASHBURTON, ALEXANDER BARING
• ASHBURTON, JOHN DUNNING, 1ST

Ashburton . He was a prolific writer, principally on See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial and commercial policy . Almost the whole of the See also:

• PRO

pro-gramme which was carried out in legislation by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• PEEL
• PEEL, ARTHUR WELLESLEY PEEL, 1ST VISCOUNT (1829- )
• PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART

Peel had been laid down in his economic writings . He was an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early and See also:

• EARNEST (probably a corruption of the obsolete arles or erles, adapted from Lat. equivalent arrha, due to a confusion with the adjective " earnest," serious, O. Eng. eornust, cognate with Ger. ernst)

earnest See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate of the See also:

• REPEAL (O.F. rapel, modern rappel, from rapeler, rappeler, revoke, re and appeler, appeal)

repeal of the See also:

• CORN (a common Teutonic word; cf. Lat. granum, seed, grain)
• CORN (fromm Lat. corms, horn)

corn See also:

• LAWS

laws, but was not in favour of a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• SYSTEM

system of See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute See also:

• FREE

free See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, maintaining that it is expedient to impose retaliatory duties to countervail similar duties imposed by See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign countries, and a lowering of import duties on the productions of countries retaining their hostile tariffs would occasion a decline in prices, profits and See also:

• WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal writings of a general See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character were: The Economist [i.e . Physiocrat] refuted (18o8) ; See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on the See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

Production of See also:

• WEALTH

Wealth (1821); Essay on the See also:

• EXTERNAL

External Corn-trade (eulogized by See also:

• RICARDO, DAVID (1772-1823)

Ricardo) (1827); The See also:

• BUDGET (originally from a Gallic word meaning sack, latinized as bulga, leather wallet or bag, thence in O. Fr. bougette, from which the Eng. form is derived)

Budget, a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

Series of Letters on Financial, Commercial and Colonial Policy (1841–1843); The Principles and See also:

• PRACTICAL

Practical Operations of Sir Robert Peel's See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act of x844 Explained and Defended (1847) .