... 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 ...

... paradise for Jaguar owners but that is perhaps beside the point. Whigs on the Green i was delighted to read that Mr. A. F. Holland has decided to standi! the General Election in the Whig interest at East Grinstead. That constituency at the last General ...

... , 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 ...

... John's) and Miss Pamela Walker (Newnham) r 1 ii r ii ii i ii H mil i v Desmotul O'Neill A GREEN RIBBON BALL was given by the Whigs of Cam bridge University, which had immense success despite the snowy weather. More than 350 guests were entertained, and a ...

... creates collectors. There is money in it. Obviously a century and a quarter ago there was no big money in the traffic and the Whig noblemen would not have stooped to trifling gains in such a traffic. Accordingly, I suppose that most of these early nineteenth- ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... became the Earl of Holland. During the eighteenth century under the third Lord Holland, the house became the chief salon of the Whig aristocracy. Byron, Wilberforce and Talleyrand were among the number of brilliant men to be met there. Lord Macaulay, gloomy ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and paintings must be sorted. The Duke and Du ...

... Herbert Maxwell, the first Creevey Papers had appeared in 1903. They are extracts from letters and memoranda of Thomas Creevey, Whig Member of Parliament for Thetford and professional guest a man, according to the diarist Greville, who possessed nothing but ...