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A Royal Visitor whom Jedburgh

... bridge and greeted the arrival with the words, “ God prosper Prince Charles, our lawful King,” but the Provost of Jedburgh was a Whig, as were most of the inhabitants. It is recorded that, when the former was addressing a Hanoverian harangue to-a large crowd ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1947
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Fifty Years of Mixe Fndeavour an Disappointment

... have changed. Labour has come into power in many countries, though the pendulum appears to be swinging back at the moment. Whigs and Tories have gone; in their place are Socialists and anti- Socialists, ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Centenaries in 1949

... Novels. Among distinguished people born 200 years ago were Dr Edward Jenner, of vaccination fame; Charles James Fox, the great Whig statesman; Goethe, the German %oet ;. Archibald Skirving, the addington -ariist; and Hugo Arnot, a Leith man who wrote “ A ...

Published: Saturday 25 December 1948
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Scotland and Home Rule

... main elements of the Home Rule movement should be glued to one another, even for an afternoon. And it is signifi¢-nt that the Whigs, anxious not ‘to be caught bathing, should have sent along their own Dr Gray, who, like his celebrated Burnsian namesake, “grat ...

Published: Monday 31 October 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Woolton and the Liberals

... Labour and ?‘Tm’y alike, to “ give the Liberals f a crack of the whip for a change.” ~ “The result would be comforting ~_to the Whigs, so long in the ~ wilderness. But it might proh‘dmm?arhament a precarious, - unstable, quarrelsome sort of ~“balance which ...

Published: Monday 26 September 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Lattle ‘Beacon’ Caused Most Stir

... deserved.” while the picture of a flaming beacon was disilayed.‘ The paper was run_ by the Tory Party in Edinburgh against the Whigs. The public did not know exactly who were the contributors. I was hinted that Scott was one of the party and that he offered ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 603 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHY BURNS SaysHe Wasl IS HONOURED Not Ins_ulted YEAR AFTER YEAR

... Saturday night. His politics he got from his father in a kind of Tory fashion, and yet the man himself was a econvinced Liberal or Whig, and had he been alive to-day he certainly would have been a free thinker and .a progressive member. At the annual Burns supper ...

Published: Monday 24 January 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 05 November 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 455 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 02 July 1949
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 578 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Lighting-up time in Edinburgh : 5.51 p.m, to 7.5 a.m

... girl would suit-the pos ' X For which she had applied. “Tell me of your achievements, please. Is there some small success Of whig'h you'd like to speak to -~ me?? She shyly murmured, “ Yes.” “I think you'd find me very quick, For in the daily race To solve ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1948
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 827 | Page: 2 | Tags: none