... for an Engli h country gentleman, in contra t to the new Italian villas with porticoe and domes then affected by progressive Whigs. (Fig. 1), at the entrance to the mode t park beside the Chelm ford-Dun mow road, proclaim as much in miniature to the pa er-by ...

... second son was born in 1761 at aworth, which had been lent to him while rebuilding was in progress. The expense of all this Whig idealism was greater than the economic The etherby estate under his management became a marvel rather than a model; and he ...

... lergyman, Dr. Sacheverell , ab ut to be s t aligbt by the torchc of the Furies. It is an expression of trong Whig loyalties. right Vernon' trong Whig loyalties. It mu t al o have been a lastinsertion, because in Thornhill' preliminary drawing ceiling and ...

... Familiar and staid as its Palladian classicism looks to-day, it was, in its time, a portent, a revolutionary symbol of the new ·whig supremacy, represented by the Hanoverian King, over T oryism and all it had stood Stourhead can dispute with the vanished ...

... where the Rockingham Whigs were in the habit of holding weekly meetings to discuss Grecian literature and art, though the Tory gossips naturally declar~d that the topics discussed were political. that he was essentially a Whig architect, whereas Robert ...

... is perhaps the earliest instance of Burlington himself being described as a ‘member of the Whig aristocracy’. Christopher Hussey included an account of ‘The Whig Ideal’ in English Country Houses: Early Georgian (1955), concluding: ‘That was to be the accepted ...

... chaplain at Hurley when he was a boy; something, we may be sure, of his pel tinacious Whiggism, for he was above all things else a Whig ; a man of sport, however, who, when Monmouth visited Oxford, offered a plate to be run for, himself riding in the race, ff ...

... later to excel. \~Tindh am was returned for I orwich in 1784, and soon became prominent in the Whig ranks. ln Pitt's Ministry of 1794, in which several of the Whigs were reconciled to the Government, he accepted the office of Secretary of State for vVar, and ...

... Being an Irish Peer, he was free to sit in the House of Commons, and sustained the tradition of the family by supporting the Whigs. One notable service he did by establishing Burke in political life. Himself member for Wendover in 1753, as his father had ...

... But his ecretary, in -communicating the news to the London Gazett,· .a signed the whole credit to Cadogan. Now, though the Whigs were still in power and had a majority iin the Commons, the Tories, through Mrs. Masham, Copyright. :S. - BELL FRQ:\I THE SIEGE ...

... · who rose to eminence, fought with Marlborough, and greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Lille in 1708. a staunch Whig, like his father, and political occupations and military service filled his active middle life. ·on the accession of George ...

... 1742 Dec. 9th , 1939. him only fourteen years, was a thorough-going Tory who held aloof from public affairs so long as the Whigs were in power. He did, however, entertain Queen Anne and the Prince Consort at Badminton in the of her His only evident addition ...