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... TWO CENTURIES AT BROOKS'S o- By GORDON NARES Brooks's, once the headquarters of the Whigs , was founded about 1764. and in 1778 moved into its present club-house, the first important work of Henry Holland, in St. lames's Street L DON clubs, personalities ...
... married for three years to the elder daughter of Capability Brown. It may have been his father-in-law's influence with the great Whig landowners that earned the comparatively obscure young architect his commission at Brooks's, but Miss Dorothy troud, the biographer ...
... revealed by the divinely in pired minds of artists. Whig statesmanship similarly aimed to free mankind to act according to inspired ph ilosophers' ideals of conduct. The moral impulsion of such Whig improvers as Temple at Stowe and Bowes at Gibside was ...
... draper. He conveyed the e tatc to his brother Sir George, created a baronet at the Restoration. The next baronet welcomed the Whig Revolution to the extent of planting in honour of William 11l the elm avenue, some 300 yards wide, that is till aligned on ...
... 16th-century ancestors of vvhom the Protestant martyr-bishop was a son. Though King's men in the Civil War, they became staunch Whigs thereafter, so that an earlier Matthew White Ridley (product of the first intermarriage of the two families) distinguished ...
... spontaneously with those of the past than Blagclon. is, perhaps, better known in Northumbria for the more serious side of the Whig tradition. which is so well exemplified there, through the active parts played by Lord and Lady Ridley in the administrative ...
... appointment to the French (7) 7. Cities pant (anagt·.) (10) 8. What life rnay seem to a carnet (10) 1 I . Where you sec a Whig you see a -- . -D·r. J olmson (6) J.J. Saw a quadruped, under the carriage, perhaps (7, 3) 15. Brutus the man (10) 17. Flowers ...
... -THE SOUTH (ll!ft) AND THE ORTH FRO TS OF THE MA OR HOUSE. From 17th-century drawings 1742 received an Irish earldom from the Whigs, although old Sir Ralph had eventually sided with the Tories. Ralph, 2nd Earl Verney, was 40 when he succeeded in 1752 to wealth ...
... been burnt in 1693, just after he inherited the Howard estates, and for a while he had been too busy establishing himself in Whig politics and society to bother himself with rebuilding. But before the end of the century he was eager to begin in a handsome ...
... have seriously offered his sketches to his noble friends, nor succeeded so remarkably well in replacing Talman as the leading Whig architect. Talman's reply reached the Duke a fe· days later than Vanbrugh's, and received an answer on June 26 : . . . The ...
... been burnt in 1693, just after he inherited the Howard estates, and for a while he had been too busy establishing himself in Whig politics and society to bother himself with rebuilding. But before the end of the century he was eager to begin in a handsome ...
... DOWN 2. Conceal nothing before us, ugly though it be (7) 3. Unctuous (4) 4. vVhat it doesn't show on the other hand is her Whig (7) 5. But not Communist to the bone? (7) 6. An unsuccessful dish ? (4) 7. Believe a woman or an -- -Byron (7) 8. It is ...