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THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

... eventually public opinion will endorse Mr. Baldwin's selection, and conclude that in this appointment we see the best of the old Whig tradition grafted upon the stout stem of modern Toryism. Mr. Churchill stood as an Anti-Communist, and, whatever political ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1924
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 111 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

All in the Game

... citizen in a Yorkshire provincial town as the last Whig. What they meant I suppose was that his politics were Palmerstonian. A Whig must be an aristocrat and belong to a land-owning family. The last of the Whigs was Sir William Harcourt, or perhaps is Lord ...

Published: Wednesday 29 February 1928
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 935 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE PASSING PAGEANT IN ENGLAND

... STALWARTS OF LIBERALISM RETURN: Mr. Lloyd George and his family were greeted on board the Andalusia by prominent West Country Whigs on their return from South America THE CONSERVATIVES HOLD THEIR OWN The scene at the declaration of the poll, showing that ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE SOCIAL SWIM

... , who will wed the Hon. W. H. Smith, the son of Viscount Hambleden, next month CAMBRIDGE HONOURS SIR JOHN SIMON: The great Whig, who has only recently returned from an epoch-making investigation in India, with Sir Barrington Hurst in the procession to ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

All in the Game

... Premiership as Pitt's warming-pan until the Treaty of Amiens was broken, was by no means the uncultured fool represented by the Whigs. According to Glenbervie he was a very good Speaker, though as Prime Minister during a big war he was hopelessly overshadowed ...

Published: Wednesday 13 June 1928
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 980 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

FOUR PROMINENT FIGURES IN LIVERPOOL LIFE

... the Napoleon of Conser vatism, Mr. Herbert Rathbone, more than another the true type of semi-philanthropic, semi -aesthetic Whig; Mr. Max Muspratt. These as men mean more, perhaps, to the city than the things for which they stand or fight. The public life ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1922
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 401 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... the Whigs in the great era when the Whig aristocracy was a mighty political force the most bigoted and exclusive aristocracy that ever waved the flag of democracy. Later, the house was a noble centre of taste and culture which carried on the Whig traditions ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1929
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2255 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GOLFER

... Conservative out and to return a Whig, he will not have them called Liberals he proposes to launch on a golf tour of the British Isles, Ireland excluded politically and golfingly. As a matter of fact, his horrible Whig will not be at the top of the poll ...

WHO, WHEN & WHERE: ROYAL ASCOT; BY THE BYSTANDER IN SOCIETY; A Brilliant Ascot

... youthful Queen was openly and avowedly Whig. When a Whig Ministry under Lord Melbourne was defeated, a Tory Ministry under Sir Robert Peel refused to take office because the Queen would not consent to the dismissal of her Whig Ladies of the Bedchamber. Lord Melbourne ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1924
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2655 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs