... was a bencher of that society, and had filled the office of treasurer. From his earliest years Mr. Tancred was a reformer, a Whig and something more ; one of the older members of Brooks's Club, and a member of the Reform Club on the first institution of ...

... younger brother of the Reeorder of Leeds, whose daughter married Sir Fransis Wood, a whig. baronet, and whose grandson is Sir Charles Wood, a Cabinet Minister under several Whig adminis- trations.' Mrs. Clarkson was for many years confined to the couch of an ...

... for that service. Murray, however, soon subsided into the function which might be called that of his life,-that of furthering whig elections and other interests, in Scotland first, and elsewhere when he could. In 1606 we find him busy canvassing in favour ...

... and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle on whig principles. His abilities soon became apparent after he entered the House of Commons, and he was deemed a great acquisition to the whig. In 1830 he was elected representativo for the county, ...

... attached to the old whig party, was the personal friend of the Marquis of Lasisowne, and co-operated With the noble marquis in all those measures which brought 'out and testified1 to the well-understood and broadly-marked character 'of the whigs. The deceased ...

... Glasgow Argas, a journal set up by the whig party with a view of conciliating the support of the liberals in general. Mr. Weir succeeded admirably in that object, but at the expense of going further than the whigs; and in 1839, in the thirty-seventh year ...

... bad at his finger's ends, and it was quite impossible to confute him. Belonging as he did to a great Whig family, and to the class which Tories and Whigs alike regarded as inheriting tte right of governtment, he commanded respect even when Le wtas in a ...

... nurabler, succeeded in eclipsing his fame. WhUn. thcI Reformled Parlianment aset in 1832, it was tbought desirable by the 'Whig G§overn- muentof Lord Grey, some of whose memibers wero very much afraid of their Rladical allies, to retain Sir Charles Manners ...

... attributed his want ot success as a politician. He assailed the Whigs with as much bitterness as the Tories, and the loss of his election in 1S37 is generally attributed to ( his onslaught on the Whig party. Ho wais not E successiul in the general election of ...

... things nave convinced me, as was never convinced how necessary it to maintain truly national organization, which, whether called Whig, Liberal, Radical, or by anv other name, ill renounce meretricious Imperialism and all its s, and will cling the safe and sober ...

... Lbs revolution began a less stirring psn: era, end Eflotis now sat as whig judges in the court ?? which, a fe~w years earlier, they were in constant dsogeur of ofI being dragged. as whig criminasl. But they were bat still the foremost nobles in that ,soblcose ...

... the Colonial Department and counsel to the Board of Trade. He held these offices jointly for ten years; after ?? during the whig government which succeeded the reform bill, he left the Board of Trade and became aseistant-Ulda' secretary for the Colonies ...