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... singleminded pursuit of power and place. On the staircase of history Peel must be pushed down before Disraeli can move up: the Whigs must be dished over electoral reform ( 1867) ; improvements in housing and sanitation might be usefll l: and an GETTING TO ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... In the events leading up to the Glorious Revolution Tyrrell played a not insignificant part, having helped to formulate the Whig theory of the Constitution through legal, religious and historical arguments. Shotover is on the green hill above Oxford over ...

... gifted with the Stuarts' athleticism, was still very fond of Grey kept Charlton H.oper, a Whig his nephew. Grey kept hounds at Charlton with Squire H.oper, a Whig sympathiser and renowned huntsman; and Monmouth, always an ardent venerer, now established ...

... place-seeking and bounce, and allying himself to the party which suited his case and his temperament; and that, though the Whigs were in power, was High Church and Tory. At Oxford he was a bumptious undergraduate, and a bumptious graduate, an ornament ...

... Bath, a prominent local Whig and owner of the Bathstone quarries. P RIOR PARK was built as the stately It was from these quarries that the buildings were constructed. Allen, despite his humble origins, had many friends among Whig leaders, such as the Pitts ...

... political overtones. H ere the Argyll brothers occupied a characteristically equivocal position, committee! in general to the Whigs and Protestant succession, but with strong Tory leanings, for many of their clan were avowed J acobites and Catholics. It may ...

... the mind of the nation. Lessons for the Whigs The results ? Ultimately moderation from either side, or either side having prudence enough not to go too far, or be too provoking. These lessons, at least, most ·whigs had learned from the annus 111irab·ilis ...

... 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 ...

... even before his death in 1668. His successor the 3rd E arl was more of a political Whig and ardent supporter of the exclusion of the In 1671 he sold animal, a zealous Whig and ardent supporter of the exclusion of the Duke of York from the succession to ...