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

... state of parties in this country. I look, above all, with deep regret and deep concern npon the position of that once great Whig party, which, while it was honoured by the names of Grey, and Brougham, and Macintosh, I deemed it an honour to helong to. ...