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... father, the second Lord S'rAm.EY of ALDERLEY, was a leading member of the Whig Administration for some forty years, and his whole family was brought up in the straitest sect of the Whig religion. Of the present genera- tion Lord STANLEY takes no part in politics; ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1890
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1681 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS

... between (,rewe ?? Chester was ninety i miles an hour, but this was shown to be considerably : below its full powers. o The Whig version, as related by Sydney Smith, was that Mr. Pitt was declared by the nurse to have 2 merely asked for barley-water. Now ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1891
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 707 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

WHAT THE WORLD SAYS

... looked on most unfavourably by his chief. Lord Rosebery, in fact, is credited with a general desire to sweep some of the older Whigs off the Treasury Bench, and replace them with younger and, to his way of thinking, abler men. Among those men- tioned as likely ...

Published: Wednesday 11 April 1894
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 870 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

MR. J.GRETTON IN SOUTH DERBYSHIRE

... of parties in the old days before rethe electors went in for democratic ideas e and the modern system of Government. The P Whig party then consisted chiefly of the old landed Interest-of the great aristocratic houses whose pro. ) perty rested almost entirely ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1894
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1804 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1892

... only living man who was a representative of the Whigs, and appealed to the shades of Fox and BURKE and RUSSEL. I am afraid> said Mr. ( CHAMBERLAIN, As he finished his castigation, that the last of the Whigs is still stewing in Parnellite juice, and the ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2866 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1892

... opponents, whether they called them. selves Whigs, Liberals, or Itadic-ils, were essentially the party of a class or a section. To legislate for the benefit of one class has always been the oharac. teristic of the Whig politician, by whatever name he calls ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3147 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Personal and Political

... is the grandson of Mr. Hungerford Crewe, who was for nearly forty years member for Cheshire, and a prominent leader of the Whig party. He was raised to the peerage by Mr. Fox in 1806. Mrs CresvO was an intimate friend of Mrs. Fox, and was famous for her ...

Published: Wednesday 24 August 1892
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2077 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE MEMBERS FOR.DERBYSHIRE

... Duke was Lord President of the Counoil. William Sacheverell, besides being a Lord of the Admiralty, was a leader among the Whig politicians of bis day. Lord George Cavendish was Comptroller of the Household ; while his brother, Lord John, was twice Chancellor ...

Published: Wednesday 06 October 1897
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2381 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY IN DERBY

... heathen that one was able to make converts (Laughter and ap- plause). Liberalism to-day, he said, was a spent forece, Tho old Whig party had practieally diesppeared, and the Radical party, which was to do such wordors for the people, bad come to take its ...

Published: Wednesday 03 May 1893
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1232 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE POLITICAL AGITATOR

... would not have bread toeat, nor a roof over-theizrheads if everybody had got their own, and wheever may be in power, whether Whig or Tory, Liberl er'Conservative, is a tyrant, a despot, and who must-be got-rid of, and the method to dispenses ?? the bloated ...

Published: Wednesday 31 October 1894
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1218 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

Local Echoes

... painter, as postessing the finest head I ever saw-the only one which I would choose for Aristides, he was one ;of the ?? ;t Whigs who ever sat In the House of Com)mons and, although that party was out of power daring - rmos the whole period in which he ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1897
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE DUBLIN DYNAMITE OUTRAGE

... regarding it. I may say, however, that I expect nothing in the way of self-government for Ireiand, either from the English Whig or Tory Ad. ministratiens. I do not blame any Irishman for hit- ating Emgland by any blow he can strike at her, and it t this ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1893
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1496 | Page: 8 | Tags: News