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... people all: yet more proof that the British upper classes invented the philosophy which goes if you can't beat them, steal the Whigs' clothes. Lord Lichfield outside his studio Lady Elizabeth in the darkroom Lichfield with Lord Encombe and model Rory Davis ...
... 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 ...
... and it has been rare for one party to occupy the throne for even 15 years. When the Talents Ministry crashed in 1808, the Whigs streamed out into the wilderness for 23 years, largely because they were incapable of closing their own ranks. So the Tories ...
... London. In the 18th century this was the leading Tory Club, in opposi tion to Brook's, founded in 1764 and leading club for Whigs. The club tradition continues. There's Dolly's in Jermyn Street, visited by Marlon Brando, Napoleon Solo, Michael Caine, Beatles ...
... Blandford is a very flourishing p'fic ...
... animal that old William Cobbett made his Rural Rides through the counties of England, pen in hand, fulminating against the Whigs and their Corn Laws. The cob was not yet quite a gentleman; though now a riding horse, he was still collar-marked. But he was ...
... long, the future is all too short. GEORGE TREVELYAN. George Tre- velyan, O.M., who died the other day at a great age, was a Whig historian, as was his great- uncle Macaulay. Like his great-uncle, he was a best-seller historian who revived the nation's ...
... have been known to make sudden recoveries. Even George III diddled his heir when the going looked good for Florizel and the Whigs. Our next Premier (whoever he may be) is undoubtedly well advised to learn all he can of his job. Many of our Premiers have ...
... election in '69 (or earlier) is also in the bag.' The Labour party has learned how to wait and has learned a lesson from the Whigs' 23 years' sojourn in the wilderness which ended in 1832. A party wan dering in the wilderness never reaches the longed-for ...
... failure of an individual Minister, however little due to his own incapacity, has usually resulted in his resignation. When the Whigs remained tor over twenty years in the Wilderness before the Reform Bill, it was their disunity which kept them there, and the ...