... man, was discharged by the Whigs, to make room for Mr. Thomds Boodle, who certainly no party man. By 1840 there was a strong re-action in the town, led by the Chronicle, against the Berkeley domination, which was Whig, and the Chronicle commenting ...

... that immediately after Christmas the subscriptions of tl\e tradesmen will be equally liberal with those of the gentlemen. Whig Press a discount. The Cheltenham Examiner and Gloucestershire Guardian, which was started under the immediate patronage of ...

... abovt notice was the original one on the sit ...

... cautioned the children not to feel proud of their gift. A letter signed An Elector, stated that the Hon. Craven Berkeley, the Whig M.P. for Cheltenham, was entrusted with three petitions from Cheltenham to the House of Commons, praying for the abolition ...

... the proposed Liberal or Whig candidate and supporter of Mr. Fox's principles. The Tory adversary spent a like sum, and terminated his life by his own hand in consequence. Admiral Berkeley, therefore eventually came as the Whig representative of the county ...

... [From the Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Advertiser, November 19, 1840.] The Berkeley Dinner.— On Thursday, the Whig-Radicals gave their Representative, Mr. Craven Berkeley, a public dinner at the Assembly Rooms. If that Hon. Gentleman were ...

... 1841, in which he defeated his Conservative opponent, Mr. James Agg Gardner (father of the late Sir James Agg-Gardner), the Whigs held dinner on which the Chronicle which had strongly opposed the Berkeley domination commented: As a celebration of ...

... instructions from the Magistrates, and as the majority of them are Whigs, whatever complaints the inhabitants have to make as to the Police being too arbitrary, the blame must rest upon the Whigs. We think there is but one opinion as to the conduct, of the ...

... been elected officiating minister of St. James's in the place of the late Rev. G. Bonner. The Hon. Craven Berkeley (then Whig member for Cheltenham), and Mrs. Berkeley have taken up their residence at Pittville House for the Winter. The Right Hon ...

... highly beneficial as an example to other railroad proprietors in all parts of the country, The Corn Laws.—The discomfitted Whigs have taken up the Corn Law agitation as a last resource. Beggared in character —stripped of the popularity they acquired by ...

... Col. Agg-Gardner's father, Mr. James Agg-Gardner, unsuccessfully contested Cheltenham for the Conservative Party against the Whig house of Berkeley, whose virtual pocket borough it then was. This Mr. James Agg-Gardner was born James Agg, and took the ...

... by an overwhelming majority [at the poll], of 219, that the combined clique, of every grade and colour, and party, from the Whig to the Chartist, from the Papist to the Socialist —even when united, formed but an insignificfint minority. Cheltenham Salts ...