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HISTORIAN'S DEATH Prof essor Basil Williams , Formerly of Edinburgh SERVED WITH C . I . V . AN APPRECIATION ..

... impression on his honours classes . His place in eighteenth century studies , attested by his biographies and his volume on The Whig Supremacy , is secure for another generation at least , and his volume on Cecil Rhodes will last as long . In spite of this ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1553 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FRANCIS JEFFREY REVIEW OF A FAMOUS CRITIC

... were spread out too widely ; interest died ; the romantics had won ; Jeffrey had left the court . He continued to press for Whig reforms , and rose to the top of the legal profession . The great art , he wrote in the Recietc , is the art of living ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SALE OF TICKETS

... supporter, not too downcast by Saturday’s defeat, declares that with a reproduction of that form, and given a fair erack of the whig, they can make a good show in the Cup competition. At the same time, he ecriticised the tactics of the Rangers’ defenders when ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

eesee-The e Chatty Side of the News

... candidates in certain cases, agreed upon by Mr Churchill and Lord Rosebery, recalls older party “ labels.” These included Torg;, Whig, Radical, Chartist, and others; and particular policies served to coin subsidiary nicknames at wvarious times like Home Rulers ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BUILDING SOCIETY Election Commentary

... themselves “ Liberal-Conservatives —so even that is not new. THE Liberal Party swallowed the - Whigs as the Conservative Party swallowed the Tories. The origin of Whig and Tory is thoroughly in keeping with the quirks of British party politics. The two nicknames ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 728 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Labels and the ~ Liberals

... of so~called thoroughbred stock, especially on the eve of the race. - Thus_there is nothing new in the ;hdigfitggfm of the Whigs at the _colours of the National Liberals . and the National Liberal-Conser~vatives. A similar resentment ~was felt by Labour ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH DISTRICT NEWS Edinburgh and South-East Glasgow and West Central and North BURNS NOT A 1 ' OLITILAL ..

... the Earl of Selkirk said that Burns in his youth was , like his father , a Toryalthough at a later time he moved into the Whig camp . Personally said Lord Selkirk , I think it rather absurd , and indeed improper , to use Burns as a political encyclopaedia ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2744 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ibcrals and Nationalism

... the omnium gatherum approachfor example , in a leaflet which I have before meissued by his election agent under the title Whigs an' Tories a' Agree . j This leaflet gives appeals from . Unionist . Liberal , National Labour , I . L . P ., and Labour ...

Published: Tuesday 31 January 1950
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Guening ews An Independent Newspaper THURSDAY, February 2, 1950 In the Bad Books -~ Again

... Bonham Carter into his radio parlour -game, his ardent wooing ~is bound to influence those who .are anti-Socialists first and Whigs ~second. In this area, the much‘disputed Liberal - Unionist z.nfiuals in Leith have been «followed by a similar mixture of ~wedlock ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Commencing the Struggle

... “irrelevant if the struggle were permitted anywhere to centre round- the size of the German -~food--rations, the ethics of the “Whig and Tory hyphenations. or the outside business activities of - Labour candidates. For the aspirants and their active ~supporters ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 659 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BACK TO QUEEN ANNE

... the '45 it was the Tories who supported Prince Charlie, and now they were supporting the Covenanters again. The Liberals or Whigs were the people that sold Scotland to Queen Anne. They were now joining the other side. ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Erening Fews An Independent Newspaper . MONDAY, February 6, 1950 § ‘The Liberal – Manifesto

... more starkly ::g’sfic view of our economic s _than either the Labour or ,j‘&f’l‘my'memorandum. Unlike “the Socialists, the Whigs well “understand that we cannot attain Mvenc‘ly and indulge in expensive, doctrinaire welfare-state_ building at one and the ...

Published: Monday 06 February 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 4 | Tags: none