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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Campbell, who had in earlier years been a dependable adherent of Lord North, was drawn to the ranks of the Opposition by this new Whig connection, and the marriage must equally have affected the scale of his London establishment. In 1790 he purchased the house ...
... to after scooter toadies driving away a bakaglag to David Davies Park-road. 1 accident NAL as Jam S; having no lasaraaee • &Whig wldla dim- Sr. James Whitmero, Ned Luerth co e d . ~m g 25. Of 11 Thrif tweed. Silversad oilier peewit,. dal% sad Ms 1.10. ...
... 1806 Henry H olland was supplying furniture for the refurbi hing of Southill, the Bedfordshire home of Samuel Whitbread, the Whig politician. A minor Regency mystery lies in the question of whether Holland himself was the desiguer of all the remarkably ...
... his sister's words, the most amiable creature, liberal in outlook, broad-minded, generous and compassionate. As a radical Whig, he promoted parliamentary reform and spoke from the heart in support of the oppressed Irish Catholics. In private, he was ...
... Parliament- Whitmores represented Bridgnorth for 194 years out of 209 between 1661 and 1870- but whereas they were Tory, he was a Whig. elected again for Bridgnorth in 1826, 1830 and 1831, but, as is explained in the forthcoming volume of the Victoria County ...
... Country House, it may have been his Toryism that attracted him to the Elizabethan style; Barry's Italianate palaces had been for Whigs. When Carnarvon first approached him in 1838, Barry was 43. He was the leading architect of his generation, but he was also ...
... the original blue-stocking. Dr. J ohnson himelf came over from Lichfield once. He disliked the Admiral becau e he was a Whig, and, seeing the Tower of the Winds, cracked a Latin epigram : Grat~tm anim~tm la·udo, q~ti debu.it omnia Q·vtam bene ventomm ...
... Dukedoms for their part ; but Rutland received his not till Anne's accession. The second Duke, J ohn, marri d a daughter of the Whig patriot William, Lord Russell, a sister of the Duchess of Devonshire, but neither was to live long. J ohn the 3rd Duke, their ...
... Sir Edward Pryce Lloyd; he was created first baron Mostyn in that year. Sir Edward's father, the first Lloyd baronet, was a Whig who had been Secretary for War. The family fortunes having been lost, Lord Mostyn's grandson T . E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, married ...