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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... by all lowl ,c- parties in the province over whioh he presided.In ar mee politics he was all his life a firm and consistent Whig, the ~tbut was not in the habit of speaking in Parliament- for re During his college life the present Earl Grey was one and ...

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... 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. ...

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... ge;sra F St. tion, Mr. Tottie occupied a very eminent position in the eores borough as a professional man, a leader of the Whig party, Ater and a high-minded, public-spirited, and benevolent citizen, ties, Owing to his very advanced years, which had for ...

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... on Dissenters for the exclusive benefit of the Estab- liehed Church. In politics, he was a sincere and earnestl Whig, looking to the Whig party to carry out faithfully |a the great reforms he shtove in his own sphere to promote. IC But if there was one ...

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... gave hsis services re( to U.reeca, asd vwas employed in that country from 1827 to all 1828. In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office under cea Kiiig Willisim IV., Lord Dundonald wan reinstated in lsis ab rank in tho British navy, froma a feeling ...

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... ministry in 1852, the Earl of Aberdeen was celled upon to form an ti adiitain, which he did by inducing a coslitobe2 ' tween the Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel ; ad- it inintitting one Radical (Sir William Moleeworth) to the y loni- Cabinet, and ...

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... 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 ...

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... Attorrney- t9 General, in l1841 Lord Chancellor of Ireland. lie its ne had only held the office for a few weeks when the ed Whigs retired, and lie was thrown aside. Ile no employed his leisure in -writing the entertainitug ve Lives of the Lord Chancellors ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...