... came from a strongly Tory family. Caroline Sheridan, granddaughter of the Irish poet was beautiful, brilliant and witty and a Whig by inheritance. Impulsive and tantalizing and of indifferent judgment but withal generous and for giving. The cause celebre ...

... the Ladies changed with the Government and the young Queen suddenly found herself about to be bereft of all her friends, the Whig Ladies, and faced with a new set of strange Tory wives. ORINCIPAL duties of the Ladies are to be with the Queen on cere monial ...

... which merit atten tion, David Emerson's Dark Bright Rose (Hurst and Blackett, 9s. 6d.) presents vividly that high-spirited Whig beauty, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Norton, Sheridan's grand daughter, her unhappy marriage to a Tory bully, and the loss of her ...

... Garden early in the I760's. With illustrations by JACK MATTHEW. But was he not John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, notorious Whig-hater, astute politician, and among other exalted offices he had held First Lord of the Admiralty True, he was still legally ...

... instruments of his vengeance. And whatever the facts of his conversion Lord Grange was certainly living in London as a staunch Whig when his wife died in 1749 in her sixty-fifth year. End CfHE was lodged in the croft of an old moss- troqper who forbade even ...

... friendly with what she called the Chaldicotes set, who were opposed to everything that Lady Lufton thought a set should be, Whig in politics, low church by inclination and, most serious of all given to bachelor malpractices. Mark's acquaintance with Mr ...