... literature (he was a noted bibliophile), and agriculture. He early embraced Liberal principles and was affectionately regarded by Whig society, and was an ardent and lengthy public- dinner speaker. He marginally anno tated hundreds of bibles and books on pugilism ...

... delightful. And so i seems. The cruel sport die, hard. A hundred years ag ...

... father, and he finally broke with him in 1781, at the age of nineteen, when he set up his own establishment, consorted with the Whigs, whose policy was anathema to the Court, and made merry with the most reckless gamblers, the heaviest drinkers, and the prettiest ...

... formidable Elizabeth Lady Holland Old Madagascar Byron poured out his petulance, Macaulay thundered, and most of the famous Whigs and wits of the Reform Bill era argued and scintillated round its hospitable break- fast- and dinner-tables. If its mirrors ...

... peculiarly fitted for the task. Not many men to day are fit to write about the annals (in particular) of the great days of the Whigs. Lord Ilchester is so fitted. He knows his house inside out. He has a sense of the past. He is extraordinarily accurate. It ...

... after. The eleventh Duke, the Jockey died in the house soon after Waterloo he was a rarity, a Protestant Duke of Norfolk and a Whig. MEMOIRS WORTH READING We waste so much time nowadays gambling on what books are worth reading (since all are acclaimed as ...

... Maiden Hurdle but the best that this Newbury winner could do was to finish second, beaten by the also much fancied Mask and Whig, who had won with ease at Hurst Park and may be a champion hurdler before the season is over. Wintry Windsor It says a lot ...