 He is a great-great-grandson of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.He attended Ampleforth College, and then went on to the University of Tours in France and the Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.Lord Peel was a member of the Prince's Council, part of the Duchy of Cornwall, from 1993 to 2006, and Lord Warden of the Stannaries from 1994 to 2006.