... announced. The grants will be at the rate of 50 per cent, of the agreed estimated cost of clearing. c CRICKETER FARMER AIRMAN Whig -Commander Ilolmes, who captained the Sussex XI in '39, at a meeting of the East Sussex Farmers'' Union at Lewes. lie is an ...

... Aristocratic London, in that age of high politics, had its definably political strongholds Hanover Square was the focus of a Whig neighbourhood, Cavendish Square of a Tory. The comparative failure of Cavendish Square in view of its projector's first aspiration ...

... speaker. Liberal crowds have much the poorer aim, he adds, being accustomed to being addressed by very vile, oily, stink ing Whigs in turn-down collars, with pro tuberant Adam's apples, a sanctimonious turn of speech, and a morbid love for the League of ...

... more dispassionate orator, none the less inspired for that. Both men had played their parts in the building of a new sort of Whig party. Both had been, in their respective ways, architects of the India Bill. Burke had devoted fourteen years to the task ...

... stronger with Creevey, who was proud of a con nection with the legs. His mother's sister, Charlotte, was married to a well-known Whig host of that day, Colonel Hughes of Kinmel, afterwards Lord Dinorben. Mrs. Payne's family originally consisted of five children ...

... 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 ...

... position in society, with rudimentary education and no private means, he depended far more on the patronage of his party (the Whigs) than did Greville. He was therefore more bitter and less judicial than Greville and his sketches and precis are less well ...

... Need I remind you of what Englishmen have thought of dinner as a sacred ceremony down the ages Let Creevey be quoted for the Whigs. Let Lord Lytton give evidence for the mid-Victorians. O hour of all hours, the most blessed upon earth, Blessed hour of our ...

... rejoined. Lady Ormonby's Creed. I have a sneaking admiration of that loyalty which was a special characteristic ol the old Whig aristocracy.. I mean, the determination to uphold one's class and never to admit that one's family can fall from grace'. Thus ...

... the pleasure of reviving public interest in Emily Eden's two novels [for Mathews and Marrot's Rescue Series]. Miss Eden (a Whig lady) was in the line of Jane Austen, and her first novel, The Semi-Attached Couple, though published in mid- Victorian days ...

... 1798, when William Pitt revived it to obtain the means of waging war. Nothing he ever did made him more unpopular with the Whigs. By an Act of 1799, a duty of 10 per cent, on all incomes from whatever source was imposed, above £60 per annum, with reliefs ...

... more hopefully the Liberal Party (or is it a part of the party reading the.score from a new Programme for Britain, is. The Whigs and the Liberals since 1830 bequeathed a good deal of influence to our land and political history, and I think Lord Samuel ...