Peelite
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Peel + -ite, after Sir Robert Peel.
Noun
[edit]Peelite (plural Peelites)
- (UK politics, historical) One of a breakaway faction of the British Conservative Party in the nineteenth century, characterised by a commitment to free trade and a managerial, almost technocratic, approach to government.