... bis public career in the Lower House, voted all occasions with the Whig party, and although an unfrequent speaker in the House of Peers, invariably supported the views and measures the Whig Governments. On the death his fotber, in October, 1839, he sncceeded ...

... and the Tories, the deceased, on more than one occasion, asserted his right to record bis vote against his party. Rather than Whig pure and simple, he was regarded as an independent and advanced Liberal—an advocate of progress, but not of hasty, violent ...