... tawdry-- no, they give instance of social genius, gaiety, elegance, wit or grace. One such group is that brilliant coterie, the Whig aristocracy of the late eighteenth century, which had as its centre Devonshire House, and as its magnet the woman who there ...

... same triangle, inside the same circle the triangle being the Devonshire House menage a trois, the circle being the brilliant Whig aristocracy which (in the late eighteenth century) surrounded it. We have the fifth Duke, his high-spirited Duchess, and the ...

... Busy, M.P., to set all Democracy aflame. Flogging often to death in the Army, a chap was telling us, was introduced by the Whigs after the Glorious Revolution (1688) and finally abolished, despite the nervous doubts of Queen Victoria, by the Army Act of ...