... Bri(f;e. These zealots were most numeroas among the rustics of the western lowlands, who were vulgarly ealled Whigs. Thus the appellation of Whig was fastened on the Presbyterian zealots of Sootlang, and was transferred to those English politicans who showed ...

... cries out for vengeance on those who shed innocent blood. For it was in the dreadful *Kkilling time,” and they were * dour Whigs ” that went to their death unrepentant and unconfessed. There, on the left, the round slopes of the Kilsyth Hills rise into ...

... Parliament in 1830 as member for Aldborongh, and in 1837 he successfully contested Perthshire, ousting Fox Maule, a prominent Whig leader. The late Earl succeeded to the Peerage on the death of his father in 1840, and after he entered the House of Lords ...