... Lucy Barlow, was officially married to the King (at Liege during Charles's exile), was endorsed by Lord Shaftesbury and other Whig grandees. persuaded him that he, Monmouth, should be Prince of Wales, and that he, and not his uncle James, must be heir to ...

... Recent research into contemporary state Papers, diaries and memoirs (instead of, as hitherto, into scurrilous broadsheets and Whig pamphlets of the time) has done something to redress the balance. But, as Professor G. \\ T. Keeton points out in his masterly ...

... By David Daiches (Thames and Hudson, £3.50). By David Daiches by elder brother Thomas for election by the handful of stout Whigs of Old Sarum, he was indebted both to Thomas and to Sir Robert Walpole for a cornetcy in Cobham's horse would have cost him ...

... 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 ...

... dying without issue in 1727 he made it possible for his title to be revived fifteen years later and conferred on the great Whig Prime Minister whose removal great-niece's husband helped to engineer. (To be wncluded) royal visit depicted his joining uprights ...

... power . . . Safe from their servile yoke their arts command And Grecian domes erect in Freedom's Land. (Note the association of Whig liberty with Rococo taste.) Another erection that from its Rococo character can be assigned to this phase is the ruin, i ...

... oldest county hunt in Ireland. Power was a towering personality-an aesthete, collector of objets d'arts, amateur actor, leading Whig politician and Catholic emancipationist, of whom Daniel O'Connor said: No man has seen Ireland who has not seen John Power ...

... 1858-1869-Clarendon held various cabinet positions, including the Foreign Office. H e was a ·whig, and the editor gives us a dictionary definition of a Whig as a Liberal opposed to further progress in democracy. There was a lot happening at this time ...

... comprised the instigators of the Reform bills and progressive legislation of all sorts, the club itself acting as a sort of Whig committee room to both Houses of Parliament. The site which William Brooks chose for his good new building on the corner ...

... lergyman, Dr. Sacheverell , ab ut to be s t aligbt by the torchc of the Furies. It is an expression of trong Whig loyalties. right Vernon' trong Whig loyalties. It mu t al o have been a lastinsertion, because in Thornhill' preliminary drawing ceiling and ...

... made a bishop today? One has to doubt it. Such a figure was Sydney Smith, who, Lord Melbourne said, had done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put together-our not making him a bishop is sheer cowardice. But cowards they remained. To be fair, even ...

... area and other clvlc dignatories, and to have acted as a debatin~ , drinking and wagering club. Politically, the Club was pro-Whig and, in 1813, Lord Belgrave became a member of the Incorporation. Lord Belgrave was elected MP for Chester in 1821 and was ...