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... unassuming attitude that Henry Holland was called upon to express in re-building Southill for Samuel Whitbread 11, the prominent Whig politician, between 1795 and 1800, the elder Whitbread having died in 1796. But while the sturdy yet refined intellect of his ...
... son was already a prominent member of the ·whig Oppo it.ion in Padiament, and it is the stamp of his alert and progressive mind that Southill and its furnishings preserves so vividly. The heart of the ·whig Opposition was arlton Hou e, for the re-building ...
... character and this was the situation of Lady Cowper, later Lady Palmerston, sister of the great Melbourne, deep in the arcana of Whig politics, who is one party to the correspondence now published as The Lieven-Palmerston Correspondence, 1828-1856, edited by ...
... and lucidly wntttn and arranged; it is altogether Druery has long been recognised as an authority on the subject. NORTHERN WHIG.- Tee author understands h:s subject, and conveys his information in simple and practical language. The numerous illustrations ...
... wished, as he told her, to be a queen indeed, and thus was spared the bitterness of witnessing the renewed triumph of the Whigs. He was succeeded, in due course, by both his sons, the elder of whom, as we have seen, did so much to make Badminton what ...
... to the Whig society of the eighteenth century England, and l>e is able to make good case for believing would be quite at home Lord Melbourne and Devonshire. The fashionable he considers a well-tQ-dO Roman of Cicero's day transplanted to the Whig society ...
... son was already a prominent member of the ·whig Oppo i- t.ion in Padiament, and it is the stamp of his alert and progressive mind that Southill and its furnishings preserves so vividly. The heart of the ·whig Opposition was arlton Hou e, for the re-building ...
... THE frontispiece to this issue of_ Cou ITRY LIFE is a portrait of Miss Whlgham, only daughter of I\llr. and Mrs. George Hay Whig_ am of Queen's Hill, Ascot. Whignam's engagement to the Earl of Warwick has recently been announced. kingdom. Bill if fides ...
... permanently crippled, and Swift's Journal to Stella describes him as walking with a stick and a crutch. The of the Whigs with return of the Whigs with George I depriYed him of the Command-in-Chief of Home Forces given him in 1712 ; but his pocket borough en ...
... of the Bedchamber. Such learned societies as the Royal and the Antiquaries at once elected him a Fellow. His position as a Whig leader and supporter of the elder Pitt's European policy during the Seven Years' War led to his resigning his Bedchamber office ...
... gures who belonged, properly, to the tradition of a vanished age. Coming from a family of statesmen, he was brought up in the Whig tradition, and as a statesman, rather than as a politician, he served his country for forty years. The historian of the future ...
... cabinet -provoking his Attainder as a traitor- discredited the Tories for a generation, confirming in office and wealth the Whigs with their Palladian puritanism. The respective architectural convictions of the two parties were immediately demonstrated ...