... than she did his courtship of Queen Anne's Tories had been promising, but then came suspicious hostility from the Hanoverian Whigs. Relations with the French Regent, d'Orleans, were not improved by the fact that Philip V. of Spain, whom Alberoni organised ...

... back as 1862, when he was A.D.C. in the Ionian Islands. His Unionist politics are indicated by his membership of Brooks's; the Whig stronghold. Guardsman and Banjoist. Sir Augustus Webster, who has just been appointed Grand Master of the Hampshire Masons ...

... revolu tionary Paris, in the Dublin of Grattan's Parliament, in the London of Devon shire House and its surround of brilliant Whig society, at seaside Frescati, with its lilacs and breezes, at idyllic little Kildare Lodge, at the edge of the Curragh each ...

... unknowingly slaves of a wrong idea. The Oligarchy, descendants of the bad barons, impinge on more modern history as odious Whigs. Any kings that they did back up were their bought men. They failed to buy up the Stuarts Stuarts (with the doubtful exception ...

... When he d d join in debate he was forthright and compelling. Many people regard him as one of the few survivors of the old Whig politicians. To this day he writes most of his letters in his own hand, and has them delivered by messenger. State Funerals ...

... company with Sir Francis Burdett. He began his political life as a staunch Radical, became by a natural process of evolution a Whig, and ended in the order of congruityas a peer. For short periods of time he was Secretary for War, Chief Secretary for Ireland ...

... fury and murder. I suppose it is, as I wrote above, that whenever re ligion becomes a bee it becomes merely spiritual politics Whig against Tory, Tory against Socialism, as in the parliamentary world of thought and belief an excuse for persecution, if not ...

... Townley's, and now the Dowager Lady Airlie's Lady Palmerston and Her Times, which has followed so closely on the heels of In Whig Society. Till one reads Lady Battersea's book, one has no idea, I think, of the extraordinary amount of inter-marrying there ...

... watching ants near an ant heap, except that I don't suppose we are half as efficient 1 1-- T ave you read Lady Airlie's book, In Whig Society So interesting it is with its first-hand information about all the great people, political and social, of the time ...

... boring point, and there has been too much -sing ling out of debutantes in a futile effort to build another Gelli- brand, another Whig- ham. This failure proves again that b e a u t i es (not in- e v 1 ta my beautiful) are born not built; groomed for stardom ...

... Highness will, of course, take a prominent part in the coronation. V Political Entertaining. 'There is not, of course, when the Whigs so to speak are on the green ever anything much to trouble about in the way of political entertainments. There are no very ...

... gazed at the people surging round her car quite oblivious of what had happened. Lord Warwick was there, too, with Miss Margaret Whig- ham, though the news of their broken-off engagement was out only two days later. They say that 1932 is to be a record year ...