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... Speaking for Haley, Claude I.owther, M.P., said had a manage from Mr Chamberlain that this it. was not a struggle between Whigs and Tories or Liberals and Conservatives, but country Boers ...

Published: Tuesday 28 January 1902
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

EARL HAIG'S £1000

... Friday- to tihe effect that a Governor of certain Dominion had telegragiheid him request! £10v)0 some ex- Servi, men who Bad whig-rated. Aliij or Rassan, flooj-otiar>- of the British Kx-'Servipo Men's Association, stale*- t±wit asked the ChairrrKun of British ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1922
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

POLITICAL PEERS

... correspondent the ** Standard writes: I find following entry old diary of ancestor mine:—'May 9, 1632 Lord Grey and the Whig Ministers resigned because tbe King refused make a number of Peers to serve a political purpose.' This may be matter of interest ...

Published: Monday 17 July 1911
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A LANDLORDS' PARTY

... Bridge of Don School last night, said the Tory Party of the past was the party of the landlords, and its opponents were the Whig party or the Liberal Party—the party the industrialists, or the eomniercialists. This party whs instituted for the purpose ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1929
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE PREMIER EARL OF ABERDEEN

... difficulty in defining Lord Aberdeen's political position in 1852. May I suggest that Lord Aberdeen at that time was neither Whig nor Tory, Conservative nor Radical, but and as such was selected a ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1902
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE UNIVERSITIES CONTEST. Sir, —Tbe foil owing letter, received by me yesterday, throws ..

... interests ; hence a supporter adherent to the national The meaning of Whig is. simply, the Irish vocative of muf (pig), which is mihuic, and pronounced very nearly vig; henoe, tbe Whig the party devoted to personal or domestic interests, opposed to ...

Published: Friday 26 January 1906
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 507 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PARADOX OF COBBETT

... especially why he could never manage a Whig; however much he might be called a Tory or a Radical. could never have understood the sincerity there was in the self-deception a man like Burke. . . . Perhaps to say he was never Whig but another way of saying that ...

Published: Monday 28 December 1925
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHIST

... Gordons, 883—Constitutional, 299 up. Bridge. 6 couples aside, Constitutional, 43b8 points; Gordons, 4162—Constitutional. up. Whig*. 8 couples. 261 points; Gordons, 253—Constitutional, 8 up. ...

Published: Friday 16 December 1910
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

RADICAL TALK

... dreams of avarice by carefully protected industries and cunningly organised monopolies which will brook rivals. M Northern Whig (Liberal- Unionist). ...

Published: Monday 07 April 1913
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DURATION OF PARLIAMENT

... A new Triennial Act formed part of the constitutional settlement with William and Mary—the “glorious” Whig revolution. It was in 1716 that the Whig Parliament. elected under the Triennial Act, prolonged itx own existence from three to seven years. Thirty-one ...

ABERDEEN ACTOR'S SUCCESS

... a repertoire* company, made his first appears fare Irish audience at Belfast Monday night. The dramatic critic the Northern Whig says in reference Mr Dugind's interpretation the part Sir Geoffrey L«joae Kitty of Ours— One lik'd at well as anything ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1912
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 7 | Tags: none