... possession, but this did not materially increase his income. Sir Robert succesf ully contested Nottingham in 1861, against the Whig party, who adopted Lord Lincoln (the present Duke of Newcastle) their candidate ; and again in 1865 ; but he was afterwards ...

... Hon. and Rev. Charles Frederick Cranstoun, who took second class honours at Oxford in 1836. Lord Stanley of Alderley, an old Whig official, who has been at different times Postmaster-General and President of the Board of Trade, and previously served a long ...

... evils than those of an English borough election. He stated : Parties were not divided Australia as they used to be. Instead of Whigs and Tories, he would rather classify them as ins and outs. The average duration of an Australian ministry was seven months ...

... contrived to insinuate himself into the good graces of these 30 gentlemen, and to return his son. Those were the old times of Whig and Tory, and those worthy people thought they were going to keep the Tories entirely in office; but no the reform coach stopped ...