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... begun he might live to be a Bort.y himself ! A weary period of waiting followed Jeffrey's call to the Bar. At that time, the Whig party in the Parliament House included several prominent young men. Besides Jeffrey, there were Brougham, Mon. creiff, Cockburn ...
... the one that was stolen—in thirty-six hours. It was said the burglars were in the employ of the Whigs. A dissolution was imminent at the time, and as the Whigs desired to avert it, they were charged with stealing the Great Seal, without which the Sovereign ...
... for many years the leader of the Evangelical party in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. (Sir Henry was a stanch Whig, and on the accession of George IV., ho gave a practical illustration of his political views by including in his prayer for ...
... ordinary reader, he appears in these letters to have been a quiet, sober-minded, somewhat commonplace county gentleman, of strong Whig principles, but taking little part in politics beyond guarding the traditional influence of his family in the Bury St. Edmunds ...
... (From the Times.) The letters and Diary take us into the best of good company, particularly whig company, though one of Lord Bristol's oldest and closest friends was Sir Thomas Hanmer. the Tory Speaker of the house of Commons. Lord Bristol was a keen ...
... his Chapter of which he did not approve, complaind passionately of the little consideration shown him. I have served the Whigs, he declared, all my life, and now they send me down a Canon who doesn't know clubs from spades. Bishop Watson, of Llandaff ...
... ordinary power of repartee, and as a whist-player had few equals. Although the Ponsonbys were by tradition somewhat violent Whigs, Miss Melita Ponsonby always adhered consistently to the old-fashioned Toryism of the Bathursts. On Thursday a CLIFTON SOCIETY ...
... challenge or at the head of thepoll. lie was appointed a Junior Lord of the Admiralty when Lord Palmerston formed a Moderate Whig Administration in 1855. lie was conspicuous as a champion of the liberation of Italy. Not !mug after Lord Palmerston returned ...