... after being Speaker of the House of Commons. Bred Dissenter, h© became chief of the Tory party, and entered the cabinet as Whig. He quarrelled with no man, had a kind word for everybody. Ho had no policy, and was, therefore, able to say that any expedient ...

... exciting election, and was defeated only by the retirement of one of the sitting members, Mr. Protheroe, at the coalition of Whigs and Tories at the eleventh hour. From 1845 to this time he had passed from town to town throughout Great Britain, frequently ...