Family
Peel married Lady Alice Jane, daughter of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa, in 1824. They had five sons and three daughters. His second son Edmund Yates Peel became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army and his fourth son John Peel achieved the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Army. His second daughter Alice married the diplomat Sir Robert Morier. Peel died in February 1879, aged 79. His wife survived him by eight years and died in May 1887.
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