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Whigs

... Whigs ORIGINS reply to correspondent who has seen reference to Whigs in these pages lately, the name was given to the political party opoosed to the Tories: roughly speaKing. the name mesnt t in favour of gradual change towards some more democratic government ...

Published: Monday 15 February 1943
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Progressives!

... first to use the word Conservative, which he did in a speech he made Liverpool 1820- The Liberal Party developed from the Whigs, and took the name early the 19th century, -when a Liberal came to mean one who was in favour of greater political liberty ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Notes of the Day

... Clarke, forerunners of the firm still carrying on in Broad Street, Bristol Tory v. Whig Another document is political one —a printed sheet with the heading Tory and Whig Finance in which the former party accuses the latter of playing ducks and drakes ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1947
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 468 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Warm

... cloudy in east Midlands and West Midlands later. Very warm. S W England and S. Wales: Moderate to fresh south to south-east. whig. Fair first, becoming cloudy. Thundery rain in South-West England later to-morrow afternoon, spreading northwards. Warm Further ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1947
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Kit-Kat

... Christopher Katt. a mutton pieman at whose house Shire Lane meetings took place It was the chief society for the leaders among the Whigs, and originally consisted of\39 noblemen and noted for their warm attachment to the House of Hanover. The Duke of Marlborough ...

Published: Monday 06 December 1948
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Liberals

... Liberals ORIGINS- TN England the Liberal Party developed from the Whigs and took the name early the 19th century, when Liberal came to mean one who was In favour of greater polit cal liberty. In the 50 years that followed (he Reform Bill of the Liberal ...

Published: Monday 11 June 1945
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S BOOK REVIEW

... work (American! discusses the foundations of the modern -state; Rousseau and his doctrine of the General Will: Burke, the Whigs, and the British Constitution. It presents its facts and conclusions, drawn from a wide range of sources, in a vigorous and ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Doggett's Coat

... world. Th? race dates back to 1715 when Thomas Doggett an Irish Actor and Drury Lane comedian and friend of Congreve fervent Whig, founded the race in honour of the House of Hanover to ce'ebrate George I'a accession the throne. The crowning glory of the ...

Published: Tuesday 22 July 1947
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO-DAY'S BOOK REVIEW

... keep workers in flirted with the i' helped to make po^ sl present catastrophe- Churchill, he says: incorporates much de fit Whig tradition, indepen q1 1 outlook and contemptuo shifts and compromi seS , » modern ' big business '& c Conservative side • • ...

Published: Monday 07 October 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Notes of The Day

... character was thus assessed, like his quarrels with the Vicar of Temple because he voted the wrong way, and his refusal to have Whigs or Dissenters in his schools, occurred between 1702 and 1720, when he died at the age of 84. Colston, in fact, behaved like ...

Published: Wednesday 18 May 1949
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 684 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EAGLE SQUADRON HAVE MORE SUCCESSES

... scale of Fighter Command operations, but one sweep over France yesterday afternoon the Third American Eagle Squadron, in a whig led by a Scoi. Wing-Comdr. Rankin D.5.0., D.F.C. and bar. destroyed a Me. 109 and two F.W. 109s and damaged others states the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 May 1942
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUSY MAN'S SUMMARY

... Markham. deputy chairman of the Government Assistance Board, came to Bristol yesterday to see how the . problem of distress folio whig air raids was being tackled.—(Page 5.) Bristol Health Committee recommend the City Council that the general closing hours for ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 5 | Tags: none