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... influence, despite his tenure of high offices of state judicious change of and his judicious change of allegiance just before the Whigs came to power in 1715. But he was a beneficent patron of the arts. Gardening was his chief love; and after his succession to ...
... Btitain into tll e 21st century, it will be conducting its business using despatch boxes which would have been familiar to the Whigs and Tories. In tlle 283 years since the boxes were any of the unfortunate resonance which Mussolini added to this bundle of ...
... foreign travel', as his epitaph declares (after Westminster and Christ Church he travelled widely in Europe), a member of rlle Whig party and three times MP for Somerset, he probably wanted his fanllly seat to reflect his new status in public life. It was ...
... to the new house (completed in 1839), past an obligingly leaning patriotic statue of William 111. The de Greys were loyal Whigs. (Below) 5- The French scrollwork parterre made by the 2nd Earl de Grey in the 1830 s e 4 o . L e ks T %. o g :Rl .;':: byl ...
... Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby (Ist Earl of Stratford, 2nd creation), creator ofWentworth Castle, and his cousin's son, the True Whig, Charles Wentworth, 2nd Marquess ofßockingham, who gave Wentworth Woodhouse the longest country-house fa~ade in Britain. Since ...
... lords of the manor at Ston Easton near Bath since the 15th century, when in about 1769, Richard Hippisley, a member of the Whig party and three times MP for Somerset, decided to build the present house, stable block and coach-house. Richard was certified ...
... or to St Leonards where he spent his time reading and rethinking his politlcal position. He was out of sympathy with the Whigs, and was drawn more and more towards the romantic Toryism espoused by his great friend Disraeli. Crace put up balusters and ...
... because of its contradictiOns. Refinement danced with crudeness, de Sade and sensibility walked side by side. The heyday of the Whig aristocracy was also a time of great social mobility, when a jolly ploughboy could realistically dream of the Lords. The Revel ...
... verses without comment: The God save the Chu-rch I pray And Blifs the Church I pray Pure to remain Against all Herefsie And Whigs Hypocrifie Who strive IVI aliciously Her to defame God Blifs the Subjects all And save both gl•eat and small I n ev'ry station ...
... connection had begun to appear very probable. Let us consider the evidence assembled hitherto. First, Vanbrugh was the leading Whig architect, and a personal friend for many years of Lord Cobham. Both had been memb rs of the Kit-Kat Club in the previous reign ...
... advanced largely by Tory patronage, at Eastnor he was employed by a Whig, J ohn Somer ock , 2nd Lord omers; but as Faringdon noted in his diary, Lord Somers wa a ountry Gentleman whig, a warm advocate for carrying on the war against France in Spain ...
... ELEGANT AND ELUSIVE 46 WINEGLASSES OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB T HE Kit-Cat Club, whose members were Whig politicians and prominent men of letters, existed during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. At first it met at the piehouse of Christopher (Kit) Catling ...