... 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 ...

... public career In the lower house, voted on all eccasions with the whig party, and, although an un- frequent speaher in the House of Peers, invariably supportd the views and measures of the whig gorern- ments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he ...

... 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 ...

... by the I b5ketobes ot thi ITish Bar. in which series he was joined by Sbeil. lr. W. H. Ctrran'sepooiality was s a literary whig. Hewas a memberof theewsigpolitiscalparty for many yeare,-sand he watchbed the game of politics with keen interest. His early ...

... EARL FoRTESCcuz, K.s., died on Saturday, in his seventy-ninth year. lie bad for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done good service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...

... his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh Review, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a commissioner of bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered ...

... editor of that journal. In the country lie was a popularfaiourite, though the plain speakiug he had practised towards the Whigs, wham he regarded as false to the cause of progress, lost him his seat at the general election in August, :1837. lie regained ...

... 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 ...

... foreign politics were, at this time, his nearest points of contact with the Whigs. And to the Whigs he now went over, accepting in 1830 the seals of the Foreign Office in the Whig Ministry formed under Lord Grey, which carried the Reform Bill, and, with ...

... his father, assisted the whig party by his influence and his silent vote in the House of Lords more than by other means, for he never spoke in that assembly on any of the great political questions advocated or opposed by the whig party, His grace was more ...

... unscrupulous or un- ?? )irtiZa bat from the Great Whig him- Charles James Fox. He was not I; ghimself, or politically, but was simply ^?ri a sincere ald earnest trihute to one of the j~t~rltised men among the Whig ?? a ;biel~iia) ?? Holland. whom Mr. Fox was ...