... 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, ...

... —The Annual (February) Smoker & Club Social will be held at the Ring o' Blls, Broadway, on Saturday, February llth. Whelk NN Whig Drive A further successful whist drive was held in the Catholic Church Hall on Saturday evening, when the duties of M.C. were ...

... Diogenes-likei with a lantern and 1 candle and a long pole, poking all the gutter-holes—not to And honest man, but a Buff (Whig). Jack Bastable. a Buff, was passing the time, and asked the poker of the gutter-holes what he was looking for. He was told ...

... It could have been averted had the attendant increased the pumping rate, but he did not know the tanks were getting low. Nri Whig At • meeting of the General Purposes Committee a question was asked as to why there was such delay with regard to the laying ...

... which they won by an odd-goal margin at Wallis Down. Better teamwork, with good constructive play by the inside-forwards and whig halves gained them the better of their tussle with the West Dorset Club. Dorchester, away to Wimborne. had a chance to clinch ...

... But this did not happen when Tories were in office Rights granted to trade unions in 1821 by the Tories were deferred bv the Whigs, and those rights were given by the Conservative Government of Lord Derby in 1859. The Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1842. passed ...

... 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 ...

... country. At a Mims vibes we might to be with the spied the Emmen ear bob the et the hes wend, eel metal esteem spied we we Whig polities *Miens end ter- Mr. Mr. Fothergill went on to say that two things were needed : (I) that the present stalemate in ...

... George Speke referred to was the father-in-law of JOhn Trenchard. and stout supporter of the Protestant religion An ardent Whig he did much to aid his son-in-law shall hear more him later. CAPTAIN HUCKER Mr Hucker was the Captain John Hucker. a Taunton ...

... had been suggested that politics influenced choice, and that the views the local Benches leaned too much to this way or that —Whig or Tory. Liberal or Conservative. Therefore. the later balancing of political parties in making the selection was not without ...

... Meetings and a Public Meeting, over which the President presided, and the Rev. F. G. Benskin was the speaker. FriOM a District Whigs National Savings for the week ending October 7th were £13.992. Conducting Mr. Sidney F. Hollyoak, the County Music Organiser ...

... gave up this profession, however, and became noted for his political essays and patriotic conduct. He founded the Independent Whig In 1704. and many articles for that publication are said to have been ■written at Flook House, which he occupied whilst resident ...