... the inner circle of the Whigs and a pleasant post in the Civil Service, which he held for about forty years and from which he drew a good salary. My grandmother had been the young and lovely widow of the eldest son of a great Whig nobleman, and she, too ...

... 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 ...

... covered in this book being from 1886 to 1907. Sir George Leveson Gower writes of men and memories of a decade in which the old Whig families were still wielding considerable power and influence. He was a Whip in those Parliaments in which the great Liberal ...

... Thomas Creevey, a Whig partisan, well known in his day, a placeman and letter-writer, lived his life nut between the era of the French Revolution and the accession of Queen Victoria, covering the long decline and the brief triumph of the Whigs, in an atmosphere ...

... of a bogus romanticism, an artificial glamour and an over-emphasised sordidness. He might have added the hangover from the Whig historians omnipresent in our school curricu- lums, in which American history is consistently played down. I seriously suggest ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...