... revolu tionary Paris, in the Dublin of Grattan's Parliament, in the London of Devon shire House and its surround of brilliant Whig society, at seaside Frescati, with its lilacs and breezes, at idyllic little Kildare Lodge, at the edge of the Curragh each ...

... unknowingly slaves of a wrong idea. The Oligarchy, descendants of the bad barons, impinge on more modern history as odious Whigs. Any kings that they did back up were their bought men. They failed to buy up the Stuarts Stuarts (with the doubtful exception ...

... When he d d join in debate he was forthright and compelling. Many people regard him as one of the few survivors of the old Whig politicians. To this day he writes most of his letters in his own hand, and has them delivered by messenger. State Funerals ...

... 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 ...

... more like grass. This Government with its plenary powers would not at first sight be chosen to stand as a parallel with the Whigs in the Wilderness all through Liver pool's long and sorry administration, which was kept so long in power by nothing but the ...

... was it he survived a single Session asked Sir Herbert Maxwell in the Creevey- Papers. And his answer was pat the Liberals or Whigs quarrelled among themselves, sat on the fence, and were impotent to overturn a tottering skittle. I was nurtured in Liberalism ...

... or diffidence than to obstinacy or con servatism. Politically, he would have labelled himself a Liberal. In truth, he was a Whig of the 'old school, and shared all their enthusiasm for travelling across Europe. He put no non possumus to p.ny plan for a ...

... members or scrap the whole early- Victorian ideal of club life S| c service, slow and dignified meals, all tne advantages of a Whig country without its drawbacks in the re8 of women and the incubus of nurseries. In short, the club could carry on for while ...

... Conservative administration which somehow beat Napoleon, carried on for fifteen years after Waterloo But then the opposition the Whigs were utterly disrupted and bankrupt On this occasion the opposition was well organised and had thrashed oul a concrete policy ...

... learn. No good to tell him that if he wants to depict with con viction the inner circle of fashion in, say, the era of the Whigs or the Edwardians, he must not let the butler announce a viscount as Viscount Blank, and must not use too freely the courtesy ...