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NEXT WEEK WHO'S A PRETTY DUKE THEN? PARROTS LIVING IN COUNTRY HOUSES COVETING CRANESBILLS-THE CHARMS WHICH ..

... ENDEAR HARDY GERANIUMS TO SO MANY GARDENERS EVIDENCE OR ASSUMPTION? THE FACTS BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE FEARS AT HOME IN A GREAT WHIG DOMAIN: THE ALTHORP LANDSCAPE CELESTRIA NOEL ON THE HAY FESTIVAL ONE OF LONDON'S FORGOTTEN PASTIMES RESERVE YOUR COPY TO AVOID ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 132 | Page: 197 | Tags: none

If, as was argued last week, Newdi-

... belies the fact that Newdigate's career began, as it ended, in disaffection. Although Newdigate writes that he deplores the Whigs' long 'despotism', he argued Gothic rebuilding Arbury Hall associations by British Dugdale Society's Roger Newdigate (1995) ...

Published: Thursday 14 January 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 185 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

PETER VIRGI

... made a bishop today? One has to doubt it. Such a figure was Sydney Smith, who, Lord Melbourne said, had done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put together-our not making him a bishop is sheer cowardice. But cowards they remained. To be fair, even ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1994
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 94 | Tags: none

Capability Brown (Fig 1). The ' Grecian building', although among the la t of the monuments to be realised, was

... of the house so that it could be read as the start of a erie of depictions of political liberty, as conceived by the great Whig families. These concepts arise in ancient Greece; they are handed on to Rome (embodied by the Temple of Ancient Virtue, and ...

Published: Thursday 21 August 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 701 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

ill-judged offensive a outrance

... belonged to Lord and Lady Crewe, he the son of Richard Monckton-Milnes, she the daughter of Lord Rosebery, the prime minister. As Whig grandees, ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1995
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 106 | Tags: none

Our Critics Appraise

... him not ju t to a wider circle of the Whig ari tocracy, but also to the royal family: his brother George was fathered by the Prince Regent, later George IV. The opening chapter, which outlines the network of the Whig aristocracy, Alternating between languor ...

Published: Thursday 19 June 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1174 | Page: 82 | Tags: none

their natural Scottish habitat? Moral maze of conscience

... fashionable since the 17305, when Lord Cobham commissioned William Kent to make the Temple of British Worthie , that paean to Whig politic and national pride, in the Elysian Field at Stowe. But now the prisoners' charity Amnesty International ha made a political ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1995
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: 85 | Tags: none

A Place in History ROBERT BLAKE G. M. TREVELYAN: A LIFE IN HISTORY By David Cannadine (Harper Collins £ 18)

... a thematic analysis ofTrevelyan's place in the history and historiography of his times. He was, perhaps, the last authentic Whig. He has had his ups and downs in reputation; admired by Sir George Clarke, Sir John Plumb and Owen Chadwick; censured by Sir ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1992
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 548 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

ALTHORP

... rooms of the house, which was discussed last week. This unusual concern for authentic detail is immediately proclaimed by the Whig-blue paint of all the park gates. In latter years, this had slipped into a bland British Standard Royal Blue. by JOHN MARTIN ...

Published: Thursday 20 May 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1689 | Page: 95 | Tags: none

The Raj At Table

... strongly spiced and perfumed for English tastes But we stick to the rice and pilau and curries. Emily was a rather grand Whig lady, who could note in her journal when trekking far beyond Simla: the dear The Raj At (Faber 14.99) back to Surat fifty ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1993
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: 104 | Tags: none

PREV ALE T view of English country houses is that, on the whole, they have been little altered, apart from

... scholar's knowledge with an artist's sense of colour and tone. Their intention has been to recapture Althorp's spirit of reticent Whig elegance. As the photographs demonstrate, this has been triumphantly achieved. Immediately after taking over the house, Lord ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 839 | Page: 153 | Tags: none

Sydney Smith

... made a bishop today? One has to doubt it. Such a figure was Sydney Smith, who, Lord Melbourne said, had done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put gether-our not making him a bishop sheer cowardice. But cowards they re- mained. To be fair, even ...

Published: Thursday 28 July 1994
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 298 | Page: 94 | Tags: none