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R. D. Woodall

... action as Premier a variety of men, Conservative Sir Robert Peel, Whig Lord John Russell, nicknamed *‘Finality Jack’’, the Conservative Earl of Derby, the coalitionist Earl of Aberdeen, the Whig Lord Paimerston and Conservative Benjamin Disraeli. He was one ...

CORN LAWS AND ELECTIONS

... CORN LAWS AND ELECTIONS The controversy on the Corn Laws in the forties and early fifties was trying time for Whig editors and proprietors. Mr Carruthers approved of the policy of Sir Robert Peel for the abolition the Corn Laws, and carried the Courier ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1967
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE FRANCHISE

... Scotland returned a large proportion of so-called Radical members. the cautious Whig temper was never absent. In fact, the Scottish temper, under all disguises, was predominantly Whig, or moderate. However that might be, the 1914-18 war showed a union of all ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1967
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 18 May 1962
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 89 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE

... POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE In politics, Mr Barron may best be described a Whig. But he was never a partisan politician. A Liberal the old school, he left the Liberal Party at the time of the Home Rule split, and a later date refused to follow the Unionist ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1967
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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LEWISMEN AMONG THE ARISTOCRATS INTELLECTUALS WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF BRITAIN

... “Family connections are most important to the social historian when they reveal some caucus of power or influence ,such as the Whig cousinhood, which moulds the country’s culture. Such an influence was exercised by an aristocracy of intellect which began ...

Walter Carruthers

... he succeeded, led him latterly to devote less attention to journalistic work. He was never keen politician although staunch Whig and interested iri economic questions. Always, however, had an open eye to the reouircment of the paper, and assisted in its ...

Published: Tuesday 05 December 1967
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 18 August 1961
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Relics Found

... Anglo-Norman aristocracy by whom the future of Scotland, would, to a large’ ‘dum. be moulded. ‘ ~ During the Revolution of 1689 a Whig garrison ot! three Highland companies took over the castle \vhlchl was immediately blockaded by a Jacobite force. However, ...

OUR READERS SAY What Does Lewis Suffer

... Lewis undergone the same sufferings at the hands of the Jacobites that the Jacobite Highlands underwent at the hands of the Whigs (who were predominantly presbyterian); but why Lewis today should be so bitterly moved by the alleged experiences of a faction ...