... acted regularly as magistrate for the Caerleon petty-sessional division. In politics the deceased was at first a Liberal of the Whig school, afterwards a Conservative, and latterly a Unionist. ...

... of Home Rule for Wales was first raised, those who did not see their way to join in the movement were regarded as doubting Whigs, if not something worse. That cry has now given place to a measure, the object of which is to pre- pare the nation gradually ...