... 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 ...

... As Beckford was in Jamaica when the election took place, his cause was championed by his brother, William. Bristol Whigs The Bristol Whigs had not been represented in Parliament for period of 12 years but at this election they brought forward the Hon. Robert ...

... Colston School the author refers to as spurious edifice, the coping s.one which was a ban upon the children of Dissenters and Whigs. This badly-managed School.' he w rites with its dirt and vermin and disorder, its careless alternation of brutal and ...

... take place on the day of your dinner but the birth of Mr Colston the philanthropist? Is that the one solitary fact? Did no Whig martyrdom ever take place on that day—no heroic scene at the Old Bailey—at Tyburn? The strong political bias which pervaded ...

... marked violent • . ••On one occasion the windows ol Mr John Hare, Temple Gate an earnest Liberal, were smashed a pro-slavery Whig mob who enterea and did much damage to the iacThe Bush Hotel, Mr Protheroe's headquarters, underwent its usual fate at elections ...