... to be a Whig majority in the House of Lords, and as the Tories had just got into power in the Commons, they were determined to destroy the Whig majority in the Lords. They decided to make 12 peers in order to swamp the influence of the Whigs. Young Bathurst ...

... e, which is about to be sold, Imo special interest for us in consequence of Macaulay's connection with it. There the great Whig historian was born; he liked the quaint old place, went thither as often as he could, and it was as Baron Macaulay of Rothley ...

... doors, was changed from an open chocolate house to a private club in 1736. At first it was the resort of the enemies of the Whig Government, and at last in George lll.'s reign it became the resort of the rabid supporters of the Tory Government, and the ...