... the noble earl was gathered to his fathers, and was laid to rest in Marston Churchyard. Lady Cork was the last of the great Whig ladies whose social gifts gave them an important place in the political history of the Victorian age, which is more than the ...

... One is reminded of that stout old Tory, Dr. Johnson, who boasted that in his 'Parliamentary report he took good care the Whig dogs did not get the best of it. Now our good friend, Member No. 2, is no doubt a vastly superior debater to poor No. 1, but ...

... in which ho compared the righteous resistance which Ulster was preparing to offer to Home Rule to the resistance of the Whig nobles in 1688. He said it was intolerable to give either party in Ireland an ascendancy over the other; that unless the Government ...

... earldoms of Cork and Orrery. A great landowner in Somerset, with a seat at Marston Bigott, the Earl was in politics a staunch Whig. Ile was a friend of Mr. Gladstone, with whom Lady Cork enjoyed many conversations. In successive Liberal Ministries the Earl ...