... election, an effort was made by the Whig part of the Corporation to choose a Liberal member, none having been returned since Winstanley in 1741. Although the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Stamford, and the county Whig families were powerful allies in the ...

... that the late leader of the Welsh Nationalists was, while at Oxford, a member, not of the Radical Club the Russell but of the Whig institution of that nature the Palmerston. This is explicable only on the assumption that, though young Ellis at this stage ...