... (whose only child became the wife of Sir Joseph Leese Member for Accrington for eighteen years) contested Blackburn in the Whig interest Mr P Roberts then looked upon as the miners' Attorney-General and a Chartist came forward as a candidate William ...

... private owner Mr Eli Higham The honest aldermen and councillors of that time were not “loony left-wingers’’ they were probably Whigs and Tories who had a social conscience and were not solely concerned with profitmaking alone It would be criminal to allow ...

... history of Britain Today Dr Mark Goldie describes the events that led to the rise of the first political parties Tories and the Whigs during the Restoration 200 The Pocket Money Programme Fifth programme in the series presented by kids and about pocket money ...