... 1878, and he played again in '79, '80, and '82. Then came such notabilities as Mr. Finlav Dun, Mr. W. B. Glennie, Mr. H. J. Whig- ham, Mr. J. W. B. Pease, Mr. F. H. Stewart, until, in 1894, you find the name of Mr. R. H. Mitchell, the first to suggest ...

... the last century the rivalry and perpetual squabbles be tween Palmerston and Russell paralysed and finally extin guished the Whigs. A political party to succeed must be led by an autocrat. I doubt if the Liberal party will be rehabilitated until both Lord ...

... one of the greatest gentlemen belonging to any period in our history. If he was born to office, in the sense in which great Whig peers long ago could be justly so described, he had great abilities, both general and administrative, and he held a variety ...

... used to sign H. Brougham for some time after he became a peer. Lymington married Miss Pease, and his father, a cynical old Whig, used to say his son had got Peace with Plenty. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Lord mouth married the daughter ...

... Geneva. The truth is that Robert Cecil has always been in politics what is known socially as a bad mixer. He is a pacifist Whig, and probably has more in common with Lord Grey of Fallodon than with any other of his contemporaries. He has never been popular ...

... Tories were suspected of clinging to the cause of the Stuarts, then associated in the public mind with France and the Pope, the Whigs remained in office for about forty years. We must distrust analogies, and yet the only Opposition now existing is suspected ...

... Grey of Fallodon should be elected Chancellor of Oxford University without opposition is quite as it should be, for he is a Whig, and as such is nearer to Toryism than the modern Conservative. Though he was at Balliol under Jowett, he absorbed none of ...

... hissing and clapping. In 1820, during Queen Caroline's trial, the Tory Government prorogued Parliament, and the disappointed Whigs hissed the Speaker as he quitted the Chair. When Sheridan sat down after his Begum speech the clapping was louder than the ...

... 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 ...

... vellous enough, in good faith. A guttie ball, think of it. It was also a fact, if witnesses' word can be accepted, that Miss Whig- ham and her sister in that championship on more than one occasion, carried the burn of odorous memory in front of the last ...

... reference without which no gentleman's library is complete. When old John Debrett, the Piccadilly bookseller, favoured by the Whigs, started his famous peerage in 1784, it needed but three small volumes of 400 pages each to-day it has blossomed into a teeming ...