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IN MEMORIAM

... brought into contract, and the transparent sincerity of his Christian profession, endeared him to all who knew him. Like most Whigs, the political party with which he was from the first connected, his opinions on Church matters were of a somewhat Erastian ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1905
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOUTHMOLTON COUNTY SESSIONS

... ]Vix>/(ioiti was charged with moving a pig in contravention the Swine Fever Act at on May 3rd. The case was adjourned, proof whig given of the projier service of the summons. (!. W. S/i«j>/riiitf, charged by P.S. Hart with being found driving without a ...

Published: Thursday 19 May 1904
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... stated tbat he was adopted as the Liberal Candidate. writer of letter the candidatea said Lord Ebrington was a respectaDle Whig, and a thorough gentleman. December 20th.— Lord Ebrington ia the member for Marylebone. having yesterday been returned by ...

Published: Wednesday 23 December 1903
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEVON EDUCATION AUTHORITY

... Pupil Teachers' Centre had bean much hampered daring the year by changes the staff, the bead-teacher and assistant tascher h whig been appointed during the period. At the Devon County School it was not desirable that the salaries of the staff should be ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1907
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 510 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHY I AM IN POLITICS

... unexplored but thrilling future. I have come into the Liberal party because I have seen that our direct predecessors, the whigs and the roundheads, have always been on the side of the people whatever form the struggle has taken, while our opponents, the ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1938
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 472 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LIBERAL GARDEN PARTY AT BRAUNTON

... disheartened by its size when hd lerr.embered the facts of history, when he iememberd, for instance, for how many years thai whigs had been the wilderness, and then for little apparent reason bad swept into power, and had been able to carry the Reform Act ...

Published: Thursday 16 July 1936
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 462 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

F.C.G.'s UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

... divided into two political camps inhabited by antagonistic tribes, Whigs and Tories. You had to be one or the other, for no fancy breeds were tolerated. If you were a member of a Whig family, woe unto you if you wobbled from your allegiance to the orange ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1930
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2818 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MRS. RICHARD ACLAND WITH BARNSTAPLE W.L.A

... there no reason whatever why a Conservative Government should not go on. But there wa> Parliament at that time a small band of Whigs, and there were throughout the country all manner of groups and organisations and societies, all working, more or less, towards ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1936
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1165 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LIFE OF JOHN BRIGHT

... always count on a respectful hearing from the Whig and Tory squires. Yet he certainly never flattered them. Two years later, and the League was triumphant. Gradually had gained adherents amongst the great Whig magnates, and its arguments were sinking deeper ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1923
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5456 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOLYWELL SCHOOL DESTROYED

... thatch. It understood that the stove in the big schoolroom was alight during the early part of the evening readiness for a whig-, drive and dance, and it is believed in some f iarters that the fire originated from this. Practically all the iarniture and ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1940
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEATH OF SIR JOHN FERGUSON-DAVIE

... Ferguson-Davie's political oooaectioa with Barnstaple (says the Western Morning Xews) dates hack 1859, when, standing as a Whig, he was returaed as oae of the memhers of the borough. About that time Barnstaple's political history was by no means a creditable ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1907
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1317 | Page: 3 | Tags: none