... that centenaries were being kept too freely, and that a severer standard in this regard should be set up; but The Northern Whig urges that it would tax the ingenuity of a devil's ad vocate to show cause why centenary honours should be withheld on March ...

... rise of new and very different forces in political life from those represented by the deceased Duke. The old type of great Whig nobleman which the Duke of Devonshire so fully represented is one which has done the State good service in its time. Such men ...

... youthful Queen was openly and avowedly Whig. When a Whig Ministry under Lord Melbourne was defeated, a Tory Ministry under Sir Robert Peel refused to take office because the Queen would not consent to the dismissal of her Whig Ladies of the Bedchamber. Lord Melbourne ...

... turn to his opponents. We all want there to be a Government, and if a Tory one is impossible, well the next best thing is a Whig one. It is clear to the meanest intelligence that, for all practical purposes, the wings of Mr. Lloyd George have been clipped ...

... the period it was the first school of its kind in England. No. 3, Richmond Terrace was early in the nine teenth century, the Whig headquarters, and here friends of the Reform Bill used to meet. CONVEVi fop main MEA1- TO THE COACHMAN'S DOOR A th cap and ...

... vice. He was for niaiiy yccua uiic ui the best-known and best liked figures in London society, despite his always pronounced Whig- gism and his frankly Liberal sympathies. Although never well known to the general public, Sir Algernon West was one of the ...

... read them yourself to know how delightful they are. Their portraiture of the Whig men and women who ruled the land are superb the picture they give of family life and of Whig society is enchanting. Much of this society was made up merely of rich and idle ...

... matrimony in the thirties. The Duke was by no means, mentally or morally, the weakling that some of his brothers were. By adopting Whig principles, he cut himself off from royal sinecures and royal smiles, and he was often pressed for money. His autumns and winters ...

... Rocca d'Evandro had to be cleared by the British infantry before the Germans were finally ejected from the jagged mountain mass whig they had been defending so desperately. But when this had been done another barrier on the Road to Rome had been successfully ...

... rout it with its own weapons. At his accession the country was governed by two hundred noblemen and gentlemen representing the Whig families. The influence and irresistible power of these families of the revolution had been upheld by promiscuous corruption ...

... rained to comprehend the business of big, strong men, was a very princess of political intrigue. The chatelaines of the great Whig and Tory mansions sixty years ago exercised no mean influence on the course of politics, and they achieved their end in an ...

... Rugby. LIEUT. R. F. BURTON Suffolks k. June 17 aged 20 born at Montreal educated at Sandhurst; gazetted 1915. FI.Sub.-Lt. R.S.WHIG HAM R.N.A.S. drowned on active service, May 9, His parents live in Argentina. 2nd Lt. H. W. HARRISON Lincolnshire Regt, gazetted ...