... 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 ...

... 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 ...