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July Bth, 1899.) character, natural beauty, and rural seclusion may give charm to old Hurley, we turn to ..

... chaplain at Hurley when he was a boy; something, we may be sure, of his pel tinacious Whiggism, for he was above all things else a Whig ; a man of sport, however, who, when Monmouth visited Oxford, offered a plate to be run for, himself riding in the race, ff ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 989 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

THE NORTH FRONT

... on to the main carriage drive, which leads to the bridge. This approach was always known as Wig Avenue. It is wig not whig, as some learned persons When Miss Anne Richarcls held have endeavoured to prove. When Miss Anne Richarcls held sway there ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1899
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1216 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

TO BUILDERS

... HISTORY will be given n the CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, by W, sde BURGH, Esq., M.A., Merton College, Oxford. FRIDAY, APRIL Isth.—THE WHIGS AND TORIES.” Tickets (which may be obtained frem li-\ Wordsworth, 2, Pottergate, and Mr. Clifford I'homas, High-street), for ...

NOTES

... undoubted abilit{l. Sir William Harcourt has ripened with the times. In days gone by he used defiantly to boast that he was a Whig. As Home Secretary, he was a Saul to the Irish. But he has now got salvation, and is | a very Paul breathing fire and vengeance ...

JATH OF THE EARL OF

... public the .rs on the Minto estate for nurposes of timate angling. In politics he wasa Liberal, belonged rather to the old Whig school than 2e more advanced section. He occasionally ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

{ 10 be continued, ) NOTABILITIES OF THE DAY

... and st as the Whig member for South Durham from 1841 to 1859, wgon he was elected for Hastings, which constituency he n‘s-rvunud till 1864. After his accession to the duchy he ceased 10 take much interest in politics. Originally & \Whig, he afrerwards ...

LORD MONCREIFF ON LORD

... Minto, stood high in the councils of the Liberal party, was a member of the first Grey Cabinet, and had great weight in the Whig Administration. So much was this the case that gainsayers were apt to say that to be a Grey or an Elliot was a passport to ...

DEATH OF THE EARL OF

... waters on the Minto estate for purposes of legitimate angling. In politics he wasa Liberal, but belonged rather to the old Whig school than to the more advanced section. He occasionally spoke both in the House of Lords, and on public platforms, his utterances ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2245 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LIE BROUGHT HOME. A QUESTION FOR THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE

... into the*enemy’s port. His mind was a hoge appropriation clavse; his Conservatism an “organised bypocrisy.” He had caught the Whigs bathing and run away with thewr clothes. So virulent an aftack wus probably never delivered in Parliament as this of Disraeli’s ...

| THE MAYOR OF LINCOLY, 1599-1900

... wards—the Minster Ward aud the B'.k' statement, by a prominent High Churchinan, is| Ward. The late Ald. Williams, who was a Whig, ar indication of the feeling which is growirg | retired from the Corporation in 1850, and died in o in Anglo-Catholic quarters; ...

CONFERENCE AT HAWICK

... find this great question solved, as f 0 many temperance measures for Scotland had been, by the Conservative party dishing the Whigs— (laughter)—and they would never be content until they captured both parties, and | got the question into the domain of national ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

!TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION LINCOLN BANKRUPTCY COULT

... done. The Tory party had always opposed ‘nnd obstructed mm while reactionary Liberals were gradually ng merged into them. As Whigs had been succeeded by Liberals, and Liberals by Radicals, so would Radicals have to be succeeded by Socialists. The Socialists ...