... George Devey and Norman Shaw, and its 'stockbroker Tudor' progeny, the style was selected by the 6th Duke ofßedford, one of the Whig magnates who figured largely among Repton's richer clients. He wanted a 'cottage of the style and date ofbuildings prior to ...

... victor of La Hogue, defeating a French fl eet sent in support of J ames 11. Thereafter, he was an influential member of the Whig 'junto'. MP for Cambridgeshire, he was created Earl of Orford in 1697. He clearly spent a great deal of money on Chippenham ...

... Past, to the extent of almost stifling his wit. But his memoirs accurately reflect his political underpinnings: his inherited Whig liberalism, and the British virtues of compromise and reasonableness, a combination that is inherently incapable offeeling ...

... devastating fire that reduced half the town to ashes. Worse still was the fact that most of the surrounding landowners were Whigs hostile to the king, and as he left the burnt town, he was subject to not one but two plots to capture and assassinate him ...

... architecture, despite the fact that he was the leading country-house architect of the 16905, the preferred choice of the ruling Whigs. But those of his houses that survive, together with two extensive groups of drawings-one for a Trianon for William 11l (which ...

... to reinforce Victoria's position as heir to the throne. Many of the houses that she and Albert visited were the seats of the Whig nobility with whom she identified, and she was especially eager to see Brocket Hall, the family home of her beloved Prime Minister ...

... Liberal partyforerunner of the present Liberal Democratswas once the most powelful party in the land. Descending from the Whigs, who had themselves held office for much of the 18th century, the Liberals had Protestant, free-trade origins and objected ...

... 24, Nylon; 25, Tormentor. DOWN. 1, Srupendous; 2. Virulenr, 3, States; 4, Levy; 5, Childishly; 6, Beef stew; 7, Soviet; 8, Whig; 14, Affability; 15, Elderberry; 17, Plodding; 18, Rapacity; 20, Humble; 21Veneer; 22, Rant; 23, Murk. Winner 0f3892 is Rose ...

... place the At Caerhays, Nash was emp- loyed by John Bettesworth Trevanion, heir of an ancient Cornish family and briefly the Whig MP for the rotten borough of Penryn, to replace the old family seat with a spectacular new house over- looking a sandy, sm ...

... redemption of British prisoners of war. In I 710 until I 713 he was Envoy Extraordinary to Portugal. In I 715, he was elected as Whig MP for West Looe in Cornwall. Two years later he bought the Seaton Delaval estate, a Delaval seat since the 12th century, from ...

... been discovered. Above all, there is a rare intelligence to be traced in the choice and arrangement of the works .This is no Wh.ig canter from the monkish daubs of the Middle Ages to the photo-realistic splendours of the present day. It is, rather, an intriguing ...

... Holland. In the garden of Holland House in Kensington stood a gigantic bronze bust of Napoleon by Canova; at their suppers, the Whig opposition, Irish nationalists and radical exiles from Continental Europe listened COUNTRY LIFE • APRIL 14, 2005 111 to the ...