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... broad horseshoe of low hills, is a magnificent Palladian house, originally built in 1730 for Hugh Fortescue, Earl Clinton and a Whig peer. In the 19th century, the house Leading away from the elegant Palladian house, the glorious 18th-century landscape garden ...
... the 114 COUNTRY LIFE • JUNE 23, 2005 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 overlooking a sandy, smug ...
... though she was married to the richest man in England and came herself of one of the richest of families, the Spencers. The Whig oligarchy that ruled England for so much of the century found gambling irresistible and its social life was centred round it ...
... striking is that the aristocracy remained in power throughout, They were mainly Whig ratherthanTory is was an essential ly I i beral age. So it's real ly down to the success of the Whig, or liberal, aristocracy, which made a very strategic alliance with big business ...
... Portland at Welbeck and the Marquess of Rockingham at Wentworth W oodhouse played an important role in Carr's career, as did his Whig sympathies. The son of a mason, he served twice as Lord Mayor of York, owned his own country estate at Askham Hall and left ...
... For example, in private ownership. This series, is especially useful and demolitions. Without minimis- although a handful of Whig book is as valuable for its intel- welcome. ing the crisis faced by the families exercised great power ligent and lucid text ...
... royal family and a large marine painting of La Hogue. The latter, together with several Van de Velcles and a portrait of the Whig ~unto ', went to Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, built by the lst Lord Sanclys in the early 18th century. Lord Sanclys's wife ...
... have gardens which are horticultural monuments to ideals and policies against those in power. That is what makes the great Whig landscapes at Stowe, Hartwell House and Wrest Park, so deeply CO U NTRY LIF E • MAY 17, 2001 159 fascinating. The very idea ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... preserving public order, so his appreciation of the suffering caused by hunger in Ireland led him to repeal the Corn Laws, with Whig {National Trust, £2O) taken too far. Peel grew up under the careful, loving eye of his father, Sir Robert, Ist Baronet, amid ...
... 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 ...