... staying with her young family, who were enjoying the seaside. They were in a large party which included Mr. and Mrs. Francis Whig- ham. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Berington brought Mrs. Kennedy and her daughter Diana, who was dancing with Tim Berington, who is in ...

... seem to be a Jacobite Tory, not only at odds with the Whigs and moderate T ories of the eighteenth century, but tracing all the troubles that have ever happened to us since, to those dogs of Whigs; a Johnsonian attitude, not easy without a good deal of ...

... laughter- maker in his own age, and so notable a figure in society, or at any rate, the society of Holland House, where the Whigs were gathered together. For his fun and ridicule were rhetorical and cumu lative, stroke following- stroke to a pinnacle of ...

... 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 ...

... should have said that Mr. Bryant and Mr. Rouse are, among our historians, as pronounced Tories as Macaulay was a pronounced Whig. And here is Mr. Bryant drawn, willy- nilly, into the Socialist camp, brought forward as prophet and philosopher of the Welfare ...

... 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 ...

... is not trying to resuscitate the dis credited poet, but the friend and patron of genius, the cultivated eighteenth-century Whig and the eccentric character. He has written a long and very interesting book about this queer man, but I do not feel certain ...

... prostitutes and drunkards. 2 Some years later at a dinner party in the house of her father, a familiar friend of leaders of the Whig aristocracy, Florence puts forward her case for organising a unit- of nurses to go to the Crimea. Only Sidney Herbert, a young ...

... the case of the former, most of them remain Whigs at heart anyway, and one is occasionally tempted to agree with that stout Tory, Squire Western, whom Fielding, in Tom Jones, makes remark about his great Whig neighbours Lords-- I heate the very name of ...

... 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 ...

... hunting-field or on the stubbles and who was suspect to an insular, sport- loving nobility as a foreigner and an intellectual. The Whigs were not at all unwilling to do what they could for the young Queen's choice. Unfortunately, Lord Melbourne was always casual ...

... was a Gilbert- and-Sullivan-in-romantic-vein in his own person. He was one moiety of the drawing-room entertainment of great Whig houses in his time Albums (Views of Venice) and Tommy Moore's ballads. He was small, handsome, romantic and his throaty, small ...