... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LIVING AMONG ANIMALS AT LAKE PARADISE: WILD LIFE WHIG] SURROUNDED THE HOME OF MR, AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON. LORDS OF THE WATER-HOLE OTHER ANIMALS USUALLY MAKE WAY WHEN OSTRICHES DRINK. IT TAKES THESE BIRDS SO LONG TO FILL THEIR BILLS THAT THEY APPEAR TO ...

... The famous Lady Melbourne succeeded by Lady Conyngham held a despotic position over society and these were followed by great Whig hostesses such as Lady Palmerston. In those days the old aristocracy were firmly seated in the saddle and the great families ...

... pleasure-hunting people were beginning to suspect that England was not quite healthy. Now 1 am afraid these old- time Liberal and Whig valua tions have disappeared. The old men have made fortunes and the young men have dreamt night mares. The soldiers believed ...

... Conservative. They certainly will not vote for the Unionist party, for that party, formed by the junction of the Hartington Whigs and the Chamberlain Radicals with the Con servatives in 1895, was dissolved in 1922 when the Union was destroyed by the treaty ...

... It was so certainly in the case of Whig historians v. George the Third. I took care, said Dr. Johnson, speaking of his faked reports of parliamentary speeches, that the Whig dogs should have the worst of it. The Whig dogs have taken care that George the ...

... America, and three years later Pitt made him Marquess of Lansdowne. For about 140 years Lansdowne House has been the home ot the Whig statesmen of the Fitzmaurice family. The present Lord Lans downe, for many years the Leader of the House of Lords, probably ...

... two years after her acces sion. Party feeling ran high between the Whigs and Tories, and by the latter Queen Victoria was accused of unduly favouring their rivals, and especially the Whig Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne. The Queen, unfortunately, had spoken ...

... selected had been Baron Bannockburn. Queen Victoria was always proud of her Stuart ancestry, and did not relish the allusions of Whigs like Macaulay and Russell to the principles which placed her family on the thione. If the naval Courts- martial at Gibraltar ...

... might envy. She has a solid and enormous political majority of ardent Constitutionalists, with a minority composed of wealthy Whigs and their sedate following. In the face of two such broad parties of loyal devotion to tradition, the minute and hybrid left ...

... the science of speech-making. The only regret that touched the occasion was at the forthcoming departure from Martlesham of Whig-Commander Blackburn. The command of this experimental station, where are assembled together a number of pilots possessing certain ...