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The Wyndham Family

... accession George I, the Whigs came into their own, and S.r William, a Tory, went over to the Jacobite camp In Somerset between the two factions led disturbances at Taunton on the evening of the coronation of George I. Hearing that the Whigs of Taunton intended ...

Tragic Days For West Somerset

... was Thomas Dire Taunton goldsmith. He had fled to the Netherlands, where he 'lelned to maintain correspondence between the Whigs in Holland and those home. He landed with the Duke of Monmouth at Lyme Regis, and rode inland to win recruits. He returned ...

DISRAELI AT TAUNTON

... DISRAELI AT TAUNTON SOMERSET NOTES AND QUERIES Whig or Tory? GAINED POPULARITY BUT LOST CONTEST DENJAMIN Disraeli, later to become Prime Minister and the Earl of Beaconsfleld, contested Taunton (or a seat in Parliament 18S5, his opponent being Henry ...

REPLIES TO QUERIES

... and Christ Church. Oxford, where had a first-class in Classics. After travels in North America he entered Parliament as a Whig, for a Cornish borough in 1826. His first speech was on Canadian affairs. 'If could not keep the Canadas with the goodwill ...

White Christmas on The Quantocks

... and Mrs. E. J. Stanley. After their deaths the mansion became a sanatorium about 35 years ago. Mr. Labouchere was a famous Whig M.P. for Taunton (1830- 1859 i and Mr. Stanley represented the Bridgwater Division as a Conservative from 1885 until 1906. ...

TO THE EDITOR Boon to Old Folk . . . Taunton's Unmarked Historic Buildings . . . An Irate Ratepayer

... of New England. Virginia, and the West Indies hailed from here numerous folk are intrigued bv the 1644-5 siega.- at the 1685 Whig Rebellion : reliable association these with particular buildings would prove great fillip to the tourist trade. At the moment ...

REPLIES TO QUERIES

... REPLIES TO QUERIES Lord Taunton tREPLY TO QUERY Apart from the fact Henry Latoouchere, Lord Taunton. Taunton in the Whig inter*' from 1830 to 1857, became Cabinet Minister as Prertden* the Board Trade, was at Taunton bv Benjamin whom he defeated, and ...

TAUNTON REJECTED MR. DISRAELI

... Labouchere. afterwards known as Lord Tauntcn. who became Cabinet Minister, President the Board of Trade, represented Taunton In the Whig interest from 1839 The clock on the Parade Market House was his gift to % town He was opposed, in 1835. Benjamin Disraeli, ...

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... 30 p.m. MONDAY. MARCH 4th. DOORS OPEN 1.35 p.m. LAST HOUSE 7 p.m. »NI ORGANISATION NIIfNTI tOMALB SIMDEM MURIEL PAYLOW TOUT WHIG *fctjr fcra * A »SNCM itm with tMM Tifer In The Smoke : 1.55, 5.20 8.40. Fernandel : 3.40 7.05. AIsoGAUMONT BRITISH NEWS : ...

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS OF SOMERSET

... extras. The report of the Schools inquiry Commission 1864. whose chairman was Lord Taunton (many years as Henry Labouchere, Whig M.P. for Taunton), was highly critical of the state of most the grammar schools. which had been ' inspected and examined the ...

Death of the Earl of Ilchester Eminent Man of Letters Services to Art and Literature The Western Gazette deeply ..

... 1939 and chairman from 1943. For some years he was a steward of the Jockey Club. the chronicler of Holland House and of the Whig Society, and as the editor of the journals and letters of the different members of his remarkable family, he was responsible ...

LIVELY SCENES ON THE PARADE

... Thank God, I'm out, I'm out! Cheap Fares The clock on the Market House, the gift 1830 Henry Labouchere, for many years Whig M.P. for Taunton, has always kept good time. In the horse days there was a cab stand round The Parade, the fare to any point ...