... fruitful sources of the family revenue. Lord Allendale’s forbears, the DBeaumonts, were traditional upholders of Liberal or Whig politics in the North-East of England for generations, and he has followed in their political footsteps. But he married into ...

... ship was, and asked him what he thought the Almighty had made Spichead for. Lord St. Vincent is described as a thorough-going Whig, and he always set his face against promotion by interest, and he resolutely refused even at the request of his Sovereign to ...

... first Cabinet Council ever keld in thig country. Mr. Jacobs quotes Macaunlay as saying: “One of the methods emp.oyed by the Whig Junto for the purpose of instituting and maintaining through ‘all the ranks of the Whiz Party a discipline nover before known ...

... influenced by it. Its monstrosity makes it unbelievable, and turns the mind away from the proper view of the real punishments whi(‘g ‘()!:d has foretold. However, each has a responsibility in respect to his every act, word, and thought. To whatever exfent ...

... 1905, was member from 1880 till 1895 and from 1900 till 1905. But the greatest of all the Lords Althorp, was, of course, the Whig etatesman of the thirties. It was he who gave the second title, like the Castlereagh title of the Londonderry’s, a special ...

... Falcon-court, in 1794. Here he entered into relations with Constable and Sir Walter Scott, and here he forged that bomb for the Whigs, the “ Quarterly Review.” The pavement of Falcon-court has been trodden by Sir Walter. One day in 1809 David Wilkie, dining ...

... After the passing of the great reform Act of 1832, these cottages were either built or purchased by a number of enthusiastic Whigs or Liberals. and each of them obtained the Parliamentry franchise under the forty shilling franchise as ** faggot voters.” ...

... Party, and advocated the repeal of the Corn Laws, Disraeli savagely retorted: ** The right hon. gentleman has caught the Whigs bathing, and has run off with their clothes.”” Much the same thing has happened in recent history over several questions of ...

... hear you; so that is two shillings off.”” p? Lord Denman is the third baron. The first, his great-il;andfnther. was the famous Whig lawyer who defended Queen Caroline, was Attorney-General in the Reform Cabinet, and afterwards Lord Chief Justice The second ...

... story will remember. During the eighteenth century this was the great Whig college, denounced in the election of 1756 by a Jacobite Vice-Chancellor for “infamous behaviour” in allowing Whig citizens to pass through the quadrangle to vote, and so escape being ...

... The responsibility for the present land system rested on both of the great historical parties in the State, and upon the Whigs more than the Tories. “And,” Professor Ashley added : ‘‘ the system is the result of just those features of our history of ...

... the other metal in the town had heen used up, took the gold and silver from the treasury and had 1t mouided into bullets, on whig were engraved maledictions against the oppressor. These were fired at the enemy, and when at last they were used up, and the ...