... William Pitt, the Tory leader, berating the Whigs of Charles Fox. Both were scions of hugely wealthy landowning families. fost-war golden age, it was rather ess evident than it is now, or was before. Money washed around politics in the 18th and 19th centuries ...

... Rockingham in his Whig administration, having been elected MP for Wendover in 1765. In 1774, Burke became MP for Bristol at the time of the long Tory government of Lord North, IJ:lthough he was in Parliament for three decades and served in two Whig governments ...

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... he did pen a novel about an English officer, Memoirs of a Cavalier, a work of brilliantly-imagined reportage. That Defoe, a Whig dissenter, could so identify with a Stuart royalist is yet another reason that he lives on as a novelist. Mario Relich ALLAN ...

... gathered to %t the new year. the possibility of even B = e apan m‘w millennium, seems organisers spread activities over a wh'ig e yedotias e 79 people were admitted to its accident and emergency depart- ...

... One of em remarks: “I see what you mean: ry men and Whig measures.” This ig actually quite a good recipe for the smooth working of new policies, though what we have now got s, as it ere, the reverse: Whig men and ry measures. There is always something to ...

... World War general; 1925 Rock Hudson, US actor. Deaths: 1558 Queen Mary . Tudor; 1796 Catherine the Great; 1823 Thomas Erskine, Whig politician and Lord Chancellor; 1858 Robert Owen social reformer and early trade unionist; 1917 Auguste Rodin, sculptor. ...

... members. The measure was carried with the support of the Whig- Liberal Opposition. Peel then resigned and the Tories lost the election. Peel’s followers, among them Gladstone, later amalgamated with the Whig-Liberals and the Tories were in the wilderness (apart ...

... emerged from the Glorious Revolution a century before were dominated by the heads and sons of great families. They were of the Whig or Tory interest - sometimes puuing these allegiances before ties of blood - but they were above all aristocrats and gentlemen ...

... upon the first art supermarket in Barcelona’s super-smart store, Vincon. . “I was impressed by the ty o the work. Tge prices, whig:“:uu'uck me as very low, and the reaction. Everybody was enthusiastically going through the bins looking at pieces of work ...

... of south-east India. The one-time clerk was already a hero when he returned to England for two years in 1753, serving as a Whig MP. But his finest hour came when he returned to score a stunning victory over a Bengali army and French auxiliaries at Plassey ...

... frantic phone calls throughout the night are an index of panic, not productivity. “In this industry merit is the main reason whig'ou are promoted,” says Balfour, who also has a three-yearold son. “I wouldn't say there was a glass ceiling generally, a.hhougt;bin ...