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... the resignation the Secretaryship War by Mr. Canning, Lord Palmerston took the vacant place, and idled until 1828. When the Whigs came into power, Lord Palmerston became Secretary of State f«r Foreign Affairs, and represented South Hants, and ultimately ...
... Lord John Russell and Reform. In a little while the leadership of the Whigs was placed in Lord John Russell’a hands, and a hard time of it he had. The reaction came, and the Whigs were mip pular ; Lord Stanley had forsaken them, Sic James Graham had done ...
... his e.'Say on Mil ten, in the EdtiJjunjh Review, drew upon him the attention the entire reading public. The leaders of the Whig party, acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay Commissioner Bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered ...
... dressed, and with one of those fresh, ruddy, whiskerless faces which make even an old man look y. uug. was clear that was a good Whig, and of old family, otherwise Lord John would have been little less irieudly. It was also clear that he was in cfiice, or he ...
... North’s success, and of that of still greater man before him, Sir Robert Walpole, who kept the Hanover family the throne and the Whigs in otlice for many years. details of his i>olsey, which, in other hands, would have been dull and uninterestin?, served with ...
... grounds where Addison, Charles James ox, Burke, Sheridan, Horner and Mackintosh, Rogers and Sydney Smith, Tom Moore, and every Whig celebrity between the times of Fox and Lord Melbourne, walked and talked, may be cut up into squares and terraces. If true ...
... money. He was then about forty-four years of age, with strong taste for applause, patronage, and public life. His wealth and Whig connections made him a peer, and earned his honours, for he patronised everything, subscribed to everything, and became president ...
... fought a duel with the captain, obtained a divorce in the 1 louse of Lords, but never married again. The Astleys are a very old Whig family in Norfolk. The title dates back 1289, and, in ISH. the late peer aucccoJixl proving his right to summoned to the House ...
... brother, George IV., made him for short time Lord High Admiral. But some of the same sort of influence that made that devoted Whig, experienced turfite, and aristocratic leg, General Anson —who had never served with any regiment since, a subaltern, he assisted ...