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... staying with her young family, who were enjoying the seaside. They were in a large party which included Mr. and Mrs. Francis Whig- ham. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Berington brought Mrs. Kennedy and her daughter Diana, who was dancing with Tim Berington, who is in ...
... brittle glass-house from which to throw stones. Politically they equalled, socially they easily outdid the Whigs in their narrow exclusiveness. The Whigs of Mrs. Arbuthnot's day at least subscribed to a more democratic Who 's Who than a peerage. Useful men ...
... should have said that Mr. Bryant and Mr. Rouse are, among our historians, as pronounced Tories as Macaulay was a pronounced Whig. And here is Mr. Bryant drawn, willy- nilly, into the Socialist camp, brought forward as prophet and philosopher of the Welfare ...
... prostitutes and drunkards. 2 Some years later at a dinner party in the house of her father, a familiar friend of leaders of the Whig aristocracy, Florence puts forward her case for organising a unit- of nurses to go to the Crimea. Only Sidney Herbert, a young ...
... the case of the former, most of them remain Whigs at heart anyway, and one is occasionally tempted to agree with that stout Tory, Squire Western, whom Fielding, in Tom Jones, makes remark about his great Whig neighbours Lords-- I heate the very name of ...
... the Ladies changed with the Government and the young Queen suddenly found herself about to be bereft of all her friends, the Whig Ladies, and faced with a new set of strange Tory wives. ORINCIPAL duties of the Ladies are to be with the Queen on cere monial ...
... hunting-field or on the stubbles and who was suspect to an insular, sport- loving nobility as a foreigner and an intellectual. The Whigs were not at all unwilling to do what they could for the young Queen's choice. Unfortunately, Lord Melbourne was always casual ...
... was a Gilbert- and-Sullivan-in-romantic-vein in his own person. He was one moiety of the drawing-room entertainment of great Whig houses in his time Albums (Views of Venice) and Tommy Moore's ballads. He was small, handsome, romantic and his throaty, small ...
... WITH THE UNDER-SEVENS Jennifer's LADY RUSSELL and Mrs. Francis Whig ham gave a delightful party at the Hyde Park Hotel for children under seven years old. This was to celebrate the birthdays of their two little daughters, Clare Russell, who looked sweet ...
... sixteenth century and earlier. In the eighteenth century the College became strongly Whig in complexion and enjoyed many of the ecclesiastical fruits of Whig patronage. This Whig connection continued until about 1850, when there was a swing over. During the ...
... unique in political annals, for the country had three different Govern ments: Lord John Russell's (sometimes called the last Whig Government); Derby-Disraeli's (the first Conserva tive); and Aberdeen's (the first Liberal). The electorate numbered 1,167 ...
... asked What was a Whig, Daddy I append a definition which I have found in a new book bv Mr. Algernon Cecil and only wish that someone would provide as amusing a one for defining the difference between a Democrat and a Republican. The Whigs were a peculiar ...