... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...