Corn Law

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Facts

Date	c. 1101 - 1846

Topics

cereal import export

Key People

John Linnell: portrait of Sir Robert Peel

Robert Peel

prime minister of United Kingdom

Lord George Bentinck, detail of an oil painting by S. Lane, 1836; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Lord George Bentinck

British politician

William Huskisson

British statesman