... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... marries an English officer in the Duke of Cumberland's army.. There was nothing disloyal in that, for the Grahames were a Whig family. But Morag's eldest brother was a Jacobite, and when, clandestinely, she visits him in hiding, her spouse (was this ...