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... until recently, believed to be the only surviving part of the interior decoration of the original house. H ere, Sir Harry's Whig sympathies are shown in a series of busts of the sth Duke of Bedford, C harles James Fox and even Napoleon, placed over mirrors ...
... regret was the House, the brilliant centre of herself no airs, and soon most absence of a chapter on the society, fashion and Whig poli- ~of them accepted her as IN 1945 the architect Harry — manufacture of papers, for tics. The Devonshires’ marriage ~ Duchess ...
... N o R MmN Te e ssb s v TR TR ewlanHn 179 3—A pen-and-ink watercolour by Thomas Rowlandson, dated 1798, of the Brilliants, a Whig club for writers and journalists ¢\l l f 1 I £ l l 1 ; Anstruther, Fife, in 1732 N\, Y NO T g S AT E -hhagee b 0 . o A ...
... Britain-was a protest against the nouveau riche Whigs by the Earl of Strafford, commander of the Jacobites in the north ofEngland. The most brilliant duel was between Joseph Addison and Alexander Pope. Addison, a Whig, believed that a country estate should be ...
... talent as a draughtsman from an early age. He was apprenticed to F. D . Finlay, a printer and the proprietor of The Nor/hem Whig, but by the age of 14 he was already giving lessons to other . His early watercolours of landscape round Belfast and on the ...
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... that people bought land in the 18th century to acquire political power. Weddell got into Parliament through the patronage of a Whig magnate, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, as landless MPs such as Burke, Sheridan and Creevey did-his ownership of N ewby had ...
... sheer splendour, the elevation was without precedent within the realms of country-house design. Conceived for an influential Whig nobleman on the eve of the Glorious Revolution, it reflected the Baroque magnificence of the contemporary royal residence at ...
... 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 ...
... male, Sandys recorded a highly personal impression of some of the 20 houses on his tour. Thus Berkeley Castle, the centre of Whig power in contemporary Gloucestershire, was 'a sad place', although Lady Berkeley 'has put some clean furniture in it'. As for ...
... Tories portrait been slashed. The Whig of insincerity removing pretty girl outside, the mop up by rival party. and such cynical Hogarth, ings- the immaculately polling Tory candidates being afterwards-was in triumph Whigs many years not bothered to contest ...