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... concerning the proper steps to be taken. Fox, leading the Whigs in Opposition, asseited the unquestionable right of the Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV) to assume an unrestricted Regency. The Whig advocacy of the doctrine of hereditary right, a curious ...
... came from a strongly Tory family. Caroline Sheridan, granddaughter of the Irish poet was beautiful, brilliant and witty and a Whig by inheritance. Impulsive and tantalizing and of indifferent judgment but withal generous and for giving. The cause celebre ...
... estab lished as an example to all. Three royal children have already been born the succession to the Throne is assured. The Whigs and the Tories are, at any rate, temporarily, refraining from wrangles and dissensions the slave trade has been abolished England ...
... the Ladies changed with the Government and the young Queen suddenly found herself about to be bereft of all her friends, the Whig Ladies, and faced with a new set of strange Tory wives. ORINCIPAL duties of the Ladies are to be with the Queen on cere monial ...
... more dispassionate orator, none the less inspired for that. Both men had played their parts in the building of a new sort of Whig party. Both had been, in their respective ways, architects of the India Bill. Burke had devoted fourteen years to the task ...
... little Bill is accepted for the sake of its political parent i A NEW LABEL FOR LIBERALS. I HEAR there is a movement among the Whigs to change the I name of the Liberal Party. The}' I want to call themselves the Free I Trade Conservatives, and are quite I ...
... Edward., 1901. Be- ginning of Anglo- Japanese .Tjr friendship. 28th, Thursday. LORD MACAULAY died JjX 1 859. The greatest of Whig historians and a ^4 brilliant essayist, who JBC never let his facts inter- fere with his views. A i£cq schoolboy poet, notably ...
... of her impending marriage to S an Irish General Mr. R. W. Ketton-Cramer achieves a broad, i S scholarly portrait of the Big Whig of Straw- berry Hill in a reprint of a 1940 biography, S Horace Walpole (Faber, 21s.), which offers 2 us an absorbing escape ...
... which merit atten tion, David Emerson's Dark Bright Rose (Hurst and Blackett, 9s. 6d.) presents vividly that high-spirited Whig beauty, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, Sheridan's grand daughter, her unhappy marriage to a Tory bully, and the loss of her ...
... can threaten action in combination with the Conservative opposition. Two historic examples were the threatened revolt of the Whigs against Lloyd George's land taxes in the People's Budget, which successfully emasculated them, and the actual revolt of the ...
... of Prince Charlie with the following words woven with the Stewart tartan into its texture Let Tories guard their king while Whigs in halters swing. There is also a tin will-case dated 1610 which was found in a chimney. Another item of great interest is ...
... of their kind, and prove him to be a perfect editor as Creevey would have said, Was there ever All his. life Creevey was a Whig, member of a party de voted to the destruction of abuses and he began his political career by representing a pocket borough ...