... 1798, during the Napoleonic Wars, William Pitt the Younger was so infuriated by the near-Quisling attitude of Tierney, the Whig leader, that they fought a duel on a Saturday afternoon on Putney Heath, before a crowd of 2000 people, with the Speaker in ...

... 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 ...

... Kemsley's dance which he gave for one of his grandchildren at Dropmore which in the eighteenth century was, with Stowe, the great Whig stronghold of the Grenville clan was, to my mind, one of the most attractive parties I had ever been to, whether before or ...

... Middle Ages the artist's patron was the Church in Tudor and Stuart times, the monarchy in the eighteenth century the great Whig aristocracy in the nineteenth and early twentieth, the new middle classes. To-day, oil companies and hotels, London Transport ...

... which Ralph Lynn wraps Robertson Hare into a bulky parcel, ties him with red tape, and leaves him upon the table of the Free Whigs' office at the House of Commons. Much has happened to Mr. Hare in his tormented past but I don't think he has ever been wrapped ...

... Cecil was speaking most charmingly and eloquently about the writing of his book, Lord M., the life of Lord Melbourne that great Whig. Referring to an earlier book of his about the same figure, he mentioned that Sir Winston Churchill had complained of his ...

... eighteenth century have grown up, and this is not always any longer possible. It must have been fun being an immensely wealthy Whig lord in the eighteenth century. Cobham built a charming Temple of Ancient Virtue. He also (and this annoyed Horace Walpole ...

... , Kensington is more cosy than noble, with pockets of mewses and green squares the wreck of Holland House, the home of the Whig oligarchy of the eighteenth century, survives as a reproach to air -power and democracy: among the cluttered or secluded streets ...

... Alley, off Cornhill, the Army officers to The Tiltyard, off Whitehall. There were special houses, like the St. James's, for Whigs and, for their Tory oppo nents, The Cocoa Tree and Whites in St. James's Street. There were Coffee Houses for Jews, for actors ...