... uncle to the present Duke of Westminster. Educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, he entered the House of Commons as Whig member for .Shaftesbury in 182'2, a seat which he held for four years. From 182' to 1847 he represented the city of Chester ...

... progress of stirring national events. He early manifested advanced tendencies at a time when it -was considered advanced to be a t Whig:; but be was in advance of his time, i and during his public career he remained so. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and throughout ...

... was f seldom seeu. and never }ieard on a platform, but be did good public work in a quiet wvay. He ixes a leads-r of the old Whigs, Colin D'lap's c party, whose great services to the common1- T sealt'i are nowadays made light of ; le was the eldest ex-meniber ...

... between meun lay in vealth or povelty of ideas. Tbie lecturer spoke of tile extraordinary range of Shakespeare'a vocabulary,'shou whig tmat Baconi's comparative poverty of nvords wai, a convincing argumuent against his suppowed aathor- ship of sonie of Shal ...