... 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 ...

... followed up by the War Office librarian, Mr. Hudleston, in his recent volume of sparkling essays. Mr. Fortescue whips the Whigs, yet, though the Whiggish Macaulay was a very great offender in biased judgments, critical libels are not the monopoly of any ...

... followed up by the War Office librarian, Mr. Hudleston, in his recent volume of sparkling essays. Mr. Fortescue whips the Whigs, yet, though the Whiggish Macaulay was a very great offender in biased judgments, critical libels are not the monopoly of any ...

... and we despise or ridicule anyone who works out the addition sum differently. Thus, in the 1830's, the great preposterous Whig families decided that coffee should be pronounced cawfee, and they shuddered at the vulgarity and ignorance of the masses ...

... 'pothecary and little sawbones. Yet fantastically small-minded and damnably ignorant and bad-mannered as could be the great Whig ladies of those days, it can never be said of them that they valued or employed the terms gentleman and lady. They always ...

... 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 ...

... still play bridge and exchange modest wagers there. In old days, nothing was too trivial for a wager vide the old books. No Whig, of course, would have shown his face there in the days when polities were carried bitterly into home life. Charles 'Fox dis ...

... 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 ...

... Lansdowne survive the high ideals and manners of the greatest epochs in our social and political life He is the last of the great Whigs who numbered in their ranks Lord Grey of the Reform Bill. He has lived well into an age when merit is assessed on Press notice ...

... intensified by division and subdivision in its own ranks. The Labour Party itself is politically as sharply divided as ever Whig and Tory were divided. Leadership, policy, authority, are denied it through the suspicion and intrigue which rend its component ...

... 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 ...

... left, were safe. The landowning classes, through the Houses of Parliament, secured and main tained control of the realm. The Whig oligarchy, under Walpole, was succeeded by the Tory oligarchy under Pitt. Both upheld the existing system against all comers ...