... COUNTRY LIFE-JULY 7, 1983 She and the Duke opened their houses for the Liberal party in the tradition of the old Whig hostesses, great old Whig hostesses, and they made a formidable combination. Jewellery was bought to wear with her wardrobe from Worth-ropes ...

... took up Canning's cause, convinced of her innocence, was none other than the high-profile Whig crimebuster and novelist Henry Fielding. Against him, sceptical of Whig social reforms, were ranged no less than the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Crisp Gascoyne; ...

... rooms of the house, which was discussed last week. This unusual concern for authentic detail is immediately proclaimed by the Whig-blue paint of all the park gates. In latter years, this had slipped into a bland British Standard Royal Blue. by JOHN MARTIN ...

... hardly fail to have an interest in architecture. Later, after a fire, he would employ Henry Holland, an architect with a strong Whig connection, to rebuild Oatlands in Surrey; and a notice which appeared in The World of March 28, 1788, referring to the Duke's ...

... Millar, owe a debt of Whig of August 16, 1835, reported that very heavy expense from a design talented young townsman, Mr the lovers of classical architecture at a of a whom erected supervision Architect, to gratitude. The Whig critic noted that the ...

... the West Country, Shaftesbury, fearful of arrest, fled to Holland and there died, and Monmout h became leader of t he rebel Whigs. But, although that winter saw him very active in his clandestine role, he found time to take part in one more very important ...

... been burnt in 1693, just after he inherited the Howard estates, and for a while he had been too busy establishing himself in Whig politics and society to bother himself with rebuilding. But before the end of the century he was eager to begin in a handsome ...

... were visual, not literary or political. It was a sophisticated game played by the Boy Patriots, Cobham's circle of opposition Whigs; and great fun they must have had in fitting the meaning to the new landscape, who e very freedom from arbitrary rule reflected ...

... generous, good-natured, amiable man, de erved a wife of more dignity. Though the virtuou Tory dame was critical of the lively Whig lady, there seems reason to believe that her wit and charm delighted her scholarly brother-in-law, even to the extent of his ...

... accrued to him, and the general condition of which, notably in Tavitock itself, the Duke set himself to improve. An advanced Whig, he had succeeded his bachelor brother, the agricultural Duke, in 1802, before spending two years in Ireland as Lord-lieutenant ...

... step from Elizabeth to Charles I, whose going down meant the coming up of a new dominant class, which was to develop into the Whigs, and so at a rush we are in the beginnings of contemporaneity: a fairly sharp division between those who are primarily interested ...

... models is, of course, not accidental. It is probably a reflexion of a Whig aristocracy's unspoken claim to be like the Roman patriciate. If this is the essence of the much-quoted Whig architecture, Holkham Hall IS certainly its purest exponent. So it ...