... A WHIG PEER PORTRAIT OF A WHIG PEER (André Deutsch. 30s.) Mr. Brian Connell has been unfortunate in subject. His industry and meticulous care with deserved better material than Pam's her supplied. For Henry, Lord Palmerston (1739-1802) a mediocrity ...

... brittle glass-house from which to throw stones. Politically they equalled, socially they easily outdid the Whigs in their narrow exclusiveness. The Whigs of Mrs. Arbuthnot's day at least subscribed to a more democratic Who 's Who than a peerage. Useful men ...

... paradise for Jaguar owners but that is perhaps beside the point. Whigs on the Green i was delighted to read that Mr. A. F. Holland has decided to standi! the General Election in the Whig interest at East Grinstead. That constituency at the last General ...

... Napoleon away from Madrid and got more criticism than encouragement from home. John Moore, and his sailor brother, Graham, were Whigs in that circle which revolved round Dr. Curry of Liverpool (Burns' first editor) and included Romilly, Creevey and his friend ...

... many books and pamphlets on the lestions of the day, which won the favour of industrial- s and were filed for reference by the Whig Govern- t. His reward came with a grant of 200,000 acres land in North Carolina when he was forty-three, and the age of sixty-six ...

... relies too much on Piickler- Muskau, that Prince of half-truths; perhaps he concentrates too much on Emily Eden's range of Whig country houses. And, to redress the balance, he might have relied a good deal more on J. L. Hammond. But he has stuck to a ...

... creates collectors. There is money in it. Obviously a century and a quarter ago there was no big money in the traffic and the Whig noblemen would not have stooped to trifling gains in such a traffic. Accordingly, I suppose that most of these early nineteenth- ...

... grandmother died in 1904, and no doubt it is in part due to the fact that both of them moved and played small parts in the Whig Society of pre- and post-Reform Bill days a period in which my profession compelled me to specialise and caused me to love ...

... sixteenth century and earlier. In the eighteenth century the College became strongly Whig in complexion and enjoyed many of the ecclesiastical fruits of Whig patronage. This Whig connection continued until about 1850, when there was a swing over. During the ...

... became the Earl of Holland. During the eighteenth century under the third Lord Holland, the house became the chief salon of the Whig aristocracy. Byron, Wilberforce and Talleyrand were among the number of brilliant men to be met there. Lord Macaulay, gloomy ...

... with a rod of iron, and leading Whigs, chiefly of the male sex, used her house as an hotel, and endured the landlady's tyranny. Creevey himself wrote thousands of words about her and her guests. and all the leading Whigs and wits frequented her company ...

... the help of his contexts, to pin wicked shifts or even Beelzebub on Brougham, whether you follow the Tories or the Radical Whigs. But Guy Fawkes is more obscure. That was Creevey's way, the unwinding game. Brougham took the title (amid derision) of Lord ...