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THE HOUSE OF LORDS: AND THE HOUSE OF LANSDOWNE: THE LORDS

... house of Lansdowne have always been Whig down, at least, to the Home Rule split it is difficult to apply the term with any precision to the com plicated conditions of the present day. The family has outlived the word Whig, as it preceded it. For the Fitz- ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1457 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

FRIVOLITIES

... d accordingly. This is the only foundation for the rumour that the Presi dent of the Local Government Board had joined the Whig party. T n an account of the opening of a bazaar by Princess Henry of Battenberg I read that two hundred young members of the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1906
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 707 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

SOCIETY GOSSIP: The Tyrwhitt Legend

... the Tierna More, commanded a troop of the Inniskilling Dragoons at the battle of Aughrim, and was attainted on account of his Whig principles by James II. in the Parliament held at Dublin in 1690. He lived to be a member of Parliament under William III. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1902
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 987 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS·CORONERS·COURTIERS

... hopes the Prime Minister has felt and flourished upon the breezes of North Berwick, now en joyed vicariously by his wife. A Whig statesman of an other generation, Lord Holland, experienced a rather reversed order of things. He was expected by her Lady ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 889 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE, M.P., THE IDOL OF THE YOUNG LIBERALS

... benches a quarter of a century ago, and he is held up as an ogre, just as Mr. Chamberlain was held up, to frighten away the Whigs. His attitude on the War was very unpopular, but the staunchness with which he held it has increased the respect of many who ...

Published: Wednesday 02 March 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 928 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN

... AMERICA? THE WORLD-FAMOUS GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, WHICH, IT IS SAID, IS TO BE REMOVED TO THE UNITED STATES. The Belfast Northern Whig gives currency to an extraordinary story that the Giant's Causeway, or at least a part of it, is to be shipped to the United ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Back Again

... peritonitis. In the case of Charles, apoplexy and fever were rather vaguely and hedgingly alleged by the physicians, and the Whigs said later that he had been poisoned by James not that they believed the quite preposterous lie, but because they hoped it ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1000 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOUSE OF LORDS: AND THE HOUSE OF LANSDOWNE: THE LORDS

... house of Lansdowne have always been Whig down, at least, to the Home Rule split it is difficult to apply the term with any precision to the com plicated conditions of the present day. The family has outlived the word Whig, as it preceded it. For the Fitz- ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1457 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BEAUTY-SPOT

... of the forehead, and those of the other on the left. Upon inquiry, I found that the body of Amazons on my right hand were Whigs, and those on my left Tories. Long before then, it is probable that the patch had been im pressed into the service of other ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1902
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1061 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... month follows hard on the entertainment given by her brother in an exactly opposite political interest. The Guests, whether Whig or Tory and it is not always easy to keep track of the interest they favour make admirable hosts and hostesses. But nevertheless ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE-MAN-ON THE-CAR

... Automobile Club on Thursday, the 7th inst. Mr. S. F. Edge was in the position of that celebrated Government who caught the Whigs bathing and ran away with their clothes, for of a surety, compared with that consummate tactician, the four-cylinder enthusiasts ...

Published: Wednesday 20 February 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1062 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs