... 694 TALKING ABOUT SALEROOMS COUNT R Y LIFE-MA RCH 18, 1982 SALEROOMS I N May. Whig ...

... 274 COUNTRY LIFE-FEBRUARY 2, 1984 WHIG VITALITY CHRISTOPHER AND BETTY HUSSEY'S VISITING ALBUMS 1936 to '7O-11 This account of Christopher Hussey's writing during and after the Second World War is illustrated with some of his watercolours. Whitsun, 1941 ...

... remains unsurpassed This magnificent silver treasury inkstand was made in 1729 by Paul de Lamarie for Sir Robert Walpole, the Whig Prime Minister. It is engraved with his arms and crest, and the Walpole and Garter mottoes. In December this piece was sold ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... became Haven Commissioner for Norfolk in 1695, and founded a century of prosperity for his family as lawyers, squires and Whigs. His big Baroque monument in the church is signed by the otherwise unknown sculptor, Rust. The arms of his son Jacob Preston ...

... success of this rouged dandy. Between 1832 and 1841 he represented Lincoln in the House of Commons as a Radical allied to the Whigs. In 1838 he received a baronetcy in Queen Victoria's Coronation Honours List for services to literature. His marriage to Rosina ...

... gable, ideas which suggest that whoever commissioned the plans had one eye on the neo-Palladian tower houses of some of his Whig neighbours and his mind on the taming of Blickling's Jacobean eccentricities through a compromise with the Modern Taste. ...

... SEPTEMBER 15 ' 19 8 8 inherited a comfortable fortune, which he used partly to fight elections (he was a Whig MP continuously from 1818 to 1852) and partly to collect works of art. His collection became one of the most famous of his day. It crammed his ...

... give me information about these paintings in connection with an attempt to clear up this point in the history of the famous Whig Club.-R. J. GATES, VJV.;an Place, Campden Hill, Ilmington, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire. including Eventually hunting. restored ...

... election which the Whigs won at great expense, and this success placed Mounsey in a very prominent position. subsequently Nicholson was not only the Bishop of Carlisle's registrar, but also acted as agent for many of the great Whig landowners, such as ...