... likes to joke about the old Whig birds having proved barren, and been obliged to to try 'At cross with the fammis Peelite strain. Ile said of Mr Milner Gibson that, though one could not help wondering when one saw him in the Whig Cabinet, as one floes of ...

... influence in private, was once the most powerful and respected of courtiers, acted through her long career as a consistent Whig, and was in her latter years the centre of a group of nobles quite unrivalled in social power. Herself a Howard and a Cavendish ...