... Brocas. It then passed away from that family and became 'a post in the gift of the Sovereign. Daring the ascendancy of the great Whig families, when there was a recasting and rearranging of offices, the post being one of profit under the Crown, was made dependent ...

... being an assertor of the Queen's government. The Tory pamphleteer assets that the compassing of elections and the returning of Whig nominees were the main business of the association. According to Sir Richard Blackmore-who ought to have known -we find the ...

... Commons, the Duke of Devonshire, though a prized and powerful ally of the Opposition, still maintains the traditions of a great Whig family by sitting in Opposition to the Conservatives. When, on Tuesday night, Earl Spencer had made an end of speaking, the ...

... peculiar circumstances of parties in the present House. Time was when the lines of party were broadly divided by the fence between Whig and Tory. Now the field is cut up into various plots, the space on the floor of the House of Commons being, as it were, let ...