... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... list (and i& it is an ideal book to buy or to p., a present). It draws a photograpinol accurate picture of the life of a p Whig family in the middle of lasfctta and gives you the feeling thatyoula been reading a not very inferior Ja Austen novel. There ...