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... that Ministry fell, towards the close of the same year, he went into Opposition with a reputation asa consistent and energetic Whig. On the resignation of Sit Robert Peel, in April, 1835, Ministry was formed under Lord Melbourne, and Lord John became Home ...
... was called to the House of Lords, under the title of Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe. On first entering Parliament it was as a Whig, but in 1834 he separated from Earl Grey. In 1841 was Colonial Secretary, under Sir Robert Peel’s administration, and continued ...
... 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 inlSSOheentered ...
... success at the bar of Springfield. In pelfties, to which, while following his profession, he paid great attention, he joined the Whig party, and wax a warm supporter of Henry Clay, 1846 he was elected Congress, and continued to belong to it till 1849. was strong ...
... Foreign Secretaryship from 1830 until the dissolution of the Whig cabinet in November, 1834. In the April following he resumed that office, and resigned it again in 1841. With the return of the Whigs to office in 1846 he again took the same office, which he ...
... Lordship next gave his services to Greece, and was employed in that country from 1827 to 1828. In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office, under King William IV., Lord Dundonald was reinstated in his rank in the British Navy, from feeling that he had ...
... town is the church, which is very ancient. LIVING CELEBRITIES. the borough of Camelford, and at once ranged himself with the Whig opposition. In 1811, he carried the bill which declared participation in the slave trade a felony, and thereby put an end to ...
... particles of cream render the acute angles of the tea more obtuse !” He was elected. Singular Derivation of the Epithet '■ Whig.” —Every reader of modern political history remembers the initials of the statesmen that went to the formation of the catchword ...