... 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 ...

... candidate, Alderman A. H. Downes-Shaw said it was 250 years since party politics began in this country. Then it was only Whigs and Tories, the Liberals and Conservatives, and since that date there had always been two parties fighting against each other ...