... Denison, who bequeathed to hirm the bulk of his ilnmenso wealtb. In politics Lord Londesborough wats a trinnch supporter of the Whig party. He was createi by George IV., in 1829, a Keight Commander *f tlio Il-Cyal Hauoverian Order, was a fellow of the Royal ...

... conservatives to power in it February, 1852, Mr Baines resigned his oficed; butb it I -5 was again pressed upon him When the whigs returned to ' le the government in the December of that year, and he er held it till' August, 1855, when he spoutaneonauly ...

... generally esteemed by all partieo, in the province orer wbicb he g5resided. In politics he was a&llhis life a firm and consistent Whig; but was not in the habit of speaking in parliament. Dnurin& his college life the'present Earl Grey was one of his pupils. ...

... public career In the Lower House, ev. i s0 all occasions with the Whig party, and, although an Unfrel? a speaker in the House of Peers, invariably sapported t clt, and nseateires of the Whig governments. Oa the death o' 5 father, in 1839, he succeeded to ...

... judge acatued by purer motives in the distribution of. the professio'al patronage that fell to his share. Scotohman and staunoh Whig, as he was, I do not-balieve the claims of' country or patty: ever entered with him into comrpetition' .wth. those founded ...

... 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 ...

... Stephen's for a few months. Both of them served in a subaltern office under Peel, and lived to bold high office under his Whig antagonists. Both worked hard at the drudgery of official life, Lord Delhonsie in the Board of Trade during the railway mania ...

... when, in 1848, Dr Sumner was made Archbishop a of Canterbury, The Tories had raised him r Ito the see of Chester ; it was the Whigs d who conferred upon him the higher dignity. There were jost then a few faint symptoms of that recoil from bhe extreme views ...

... those of his rivals, ye At all events, he made way for them to carry the. tb measure by resigning the government. But the Whigs, pi were in no condition to accept' the hoxiour thus, el offered to them. t The diplomaldic rupture with Spain produced much ...

... in 1S51, the resignation of Lord J. Russell brought the Conservatives to the very gates of Downing-street ; and after the Whigs had retained their offices for a year longer, in Feb- ruary, 1852, the Conservative chief, who meanwhile had succeeded his ...