... selected had been Baron Bannockburn. Queen Victoria was always proud of her Stuart ancestry, and did not relish the allusions of Whigs like Macaulay and Russell to the principles which placed her family on the thione. If the naval Courts- martial at Gibraltar ...

... the science of speech-making. The only regret that touched the occasion was at the forthcoming departure from Martlesham of Whig-Commander Blackburn. The command of this experimental station, where are assembled together a number of pilots possessing certain ...

... the last century the rivalry and perpetual squabbles be tween Palmerston and Russell paralysed and finally extin guished the Whigs. A political party to succeed must be led by an autocrat. I doubt if the Liberal party will be rehabilitated until both Lord ...

... that Lord Broughton who, as Lord Rosebery has put it, began as a fierce Radical, became by a natural process of evolution a Whig, and ended in the order of congruity as a peer. In his later years one of the things he was most proud of was having in vented ...

... used to sign H. Brougham for some time after he became a peer. Lymington married Miss Pease, and his father, a cynical old Whig, used to say his son had got Peace with Plenty. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Lord mouth married the daughter ...

... or Conservatives be fore their eyes are opened will depend upon whom you want to please. To a Labour audience some can be Whigs and some Tories before their eyes are opened and Labour supporters afterwards. To a mixed audience you simply explain the varying ...

... Geneva. The truth is that Robert Cecil has always been in politics what is known socially as a bad mixer. He is a pacifist Whig, and probably has more in common with Lord Grey of Fallodon than with any other of his contemporaries. He has never been popular ...

... that bears. sway. The Campbells, as far as one can guess from history, had lowland leanings through their alliance witli the Whigs. There was never the wild romance about them that clung to the more predatory and Jacobite clans. Rob Roy might call himself ...

... Tories were suspected of clinging to the cause of the Stuarts, then associated in the public mind with France and the Pope, the Whigs remained in office for about forty years. We must distrust analogies, and yet the only Opposition now existing is suspected ...

... Grey of Fallodon should be elected Chancellor of Oxford University without opposition is quite as it should be, for he is a Whig, and as such is nearer to Toryism than the modern Conservative. Though he was at Balliol under Jowett, he absorbed none of ...

... Smyths were Cavaliers while Smiths were Evangelicals, Smyths were High Churchmen or Roman Catholics while Smiths flourished as Whigs, Liberals, or Radicals, Smyths suffered for Tory or Jacobite principles. Mr. Reade maintains that the original form of the ...

... hissing and clapping. In 1820, during Queen Caroline's trial, the Tory Government prorogued Parliament, and the disappointed Whigs hissed the Speaker as he quitted the Chair. When Sheridan sat down after his Begum speech the clapping was louder than the ...