Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... the editor of that journaL In the country he was a popular favourite, though tie plain speaking he had practised towards the Whigs, whem he re- garded as false to the cause of progress, lost bim his seat at the general ele- tion in August, 1837. He regained ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... and two years afterwards 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 acquisi- tion to the Whigs, a political party then hourly gaining strength in the ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... of Com- mons as member for Winchelsea in 1826. Lord Howick, as be was then known, like his father, was a member of the old Whig party, then in a somewhat forlorn and hopeless condi- tion. He speedily distinguished himself as a bold, if not. a very brilliant ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... liberal and republican innti- tutions by a visit to America, Captain EIrall laid preceded her and set her the examplo of a Whig of W'higs turned Toey by a visit to Liberty's head-quarters; and Thomas oore himself, though he didi not roturn from America un-~higged ...

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries

... Somerville, who, before going into business, was the confidential clerk and friend of Henry Erskine, the leader of the Scotch Whigs and brother of the Lord Chancellor of England. Mr Russel appears to have been originally in- tended for a printer, but he changed ...