... a shell the other day, was more than 300 years old and was in 1800 in the occupation of Charles Western, M.P. for Maldon, a Whig stalwart who knew a lot about agri culture, was known as stiff-rump and died Lord Western of Rivenhall in 1844. He was educated ...

... as strange that Thomas Creevey, a person of somewhat' obscure birth, should have been admitted on such familiar terms to the Whig circle the most exclusive of all political parties. It was not until these volumes had been published that the puzzle was explained ...

... second turned Newcome's into an extremely fashionable seminary for the sons of noblemen and gentlemen of (for the most part) Whig persuasion one of the earlier Newcomes had been tutor to Charles Fox and brought the numbers of the school up to eighty or ...

... books, I was tempted to take them in and to re-arrange them on my shelves. It is the relics of a representative library of a Whig country house of about 1840. I found among my share one or two little lost gems. Two tiny volumes of Horace (Elzevirs of 1627) ...

... their times thrown by Emily Eden, Ouida or Elinor Glvn. The Sent i-att ached Couple is the age of the Reform Bill, as viewed in Whig circles the Visits of Elizabeth is the Edwardian age as lived in the circle of Privilege for any age a cross section of the ...

... It was almost resolved to pull it down. But wiser counsels prevailed, and a generation later the house was the homeof the Whigs and the epicentre of social life in London. Macaulay was among the last of those who helped to make the brilliance of its ...