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1900 - 1949
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EX A M HASS ADO US DE A Tll

... Right Hon. Sir Henry George Elliot, who served British Ambassador in Constantinople ami in Vienna. Sir Henry sprang from old Whig family, being the second son of the second Earl of Minto. and therefore an uncle of the Hon. Arthur Elliot. Ho entered the ...

BaXD OF BOV BURGLARS

... lace at the cuffs pair of jack boots with spurs: three sword bayonets; three air ; a breech-loading fowling piece ; several whigs moustaches, and theatrical makeup box. hey also found large quantity of sensational literature, and they learned that the ...

Aged Peer’s Betrothal

... Hunt. In politics Lord Portman was a follower of the late Duke of Devonshire. From 1852 to 1885 he sat in the House of Commons Whig, and he left the Party with the Duke, who was then Marquis of Hartington, at the time of the Home Rule split. In recent years ...

TWO RIVER MYSTERIES

... Hartington made his first appearance in the House of Commons when twenty-three years of age. He had, course, the whole great Whig influence the back of him, and it is quite possible that he owed hi* speedy success and preferment to that fact a« well hie ...

THE ORIGIN AND BASIS OF FREE

... is my correspondence to his And he must know that what I say is the fact. It time, then, to give up bandying the terms of ‘Whig’ and ‘Tory’ about from one side of the House to the other, and to engage in a serious inquiry into the present condition of ...

THE WARMINSTER PLOT TO KILL JAMES II

... , had found himself unsupported, was being joined by large numbers of the nobility and influential gentry, not only of the Whig party, but from the ranks of the Tories and High Churchmen, and his quarters began to present the appearance of a Court. Messenger ...

DI LION

... be above thll altogether as friends and brothers, whatsvw Ifcsy might belong to, whether they were Church ©r Nonconformist, Whig, Radical, or Conservative. was pleased to tell them that the way in which this class had been worked had give* Asm a larger ...

“C. B.” AT FROME

... point in supporting, a little later, resolution of thanks to Sir Henry. At no time, be paid, since the (Treat split in the Whig party at the end of the IStb Century, since Burke publicly severed his life-long frendsbip with Fox on the floor of the House ...

TOWN TOPICS

... finest in club-land and a long succession of celebrated chefs, including the two 1 have invoked, have ministered to the wants of Whig gourmets. But now it seems that the cuisine has fallen from its high estate, and that the Reform must bo reformed. At the annual ...

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... a Free Trader, Reformer and an anti-Reformer, a Repealer and Unionist, a Church-and-State man and Disestabisher, a Tory, a Whig, and a Radical: and if it is possible to reconcile, as it is possible, all these changes with respect and even reverence for ...

LENIENTLY DEALT WITH,

... Winchester and Oxford has been as powerless to change them as social associations or family ties. The Fullers of Frensham were Whigs, just the Fleet woods of Aldwinkle were, in their generation, sturdy Parliamentarians. More than a century has elapsed since ...

DEATH OF MR. W. F. MORGAN

... the Liberal party. He would be more correctly put in the same category as the present member, and described as a Whig, But there is no Whig party nowadays. Mr. Morgan carried the banner of Liberalism in the centre of the enemy’s camp—for the Warminster ...