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... (later James In to the throne. It was in the reign of Queen Anne that the terms Whig and Tory were first used in speaking of the two great parties in Parliament. Later the Whigs came to be known as Liberals and the Tories as Conservatives. ...

Published: Friday 05 October 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TALBOT & SON

... recently gained, that is, Cross and Bar, was; made on Wednesday. It is interesting to note. that ho was one of ogly two officers whig received on this occasion the rare and c9eted double distinction. In making the presentation, the King, after shaking* the ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 725 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Cbc (Uells journal

... arising from the experience of war. Memories of Peel, Gobden, and Bright are revived. Peel’s dramatic method of “dishing the Whigs’’ is still remembered. Peel, who had consistently and vigorously defended the retention of a duty foreign corn, who had been ...

Published: Friday 17 August 1917
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 2979 | Page: 2 | Tags: none