... 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 ...

... LEICESTER EL tamper \werc turned ont! Never did a Whig go out of Yon must actually tarn him out ; you' mwst tear the out of hiis hands.” W hat would it have been, then, to | had a Whig a Chancellor of the Exchequer, where o is purse agwell as seals : ...

... 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 ...

... to identify themselves, marched forth, sending the mayor ahead as negotiator. The Whigs refused to meet him, so war was declared. Next morning, Lord Spencer of the Whigs mounted the inn’s balcony and addressed the crowd, exhorting them not to resort to ...

... · 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 ...

... part the work of local practitioners whom the T ories, in distinction to the cultivated Whig magnates, made it their business to patronise. It was among the ·Whigs that Vanbrugh found his patrons and Wren his detractors, and that the new Palladian cult ...

... made a bishop today? One has to doubt it. Such a figure was Sydney Smith, who, Lord Melbourne said, had done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put together-our not making him a bishop is sheer cowardice. But cowards they remained. To be fair, even ...

... without a lawsuit, as is recorded on his monument. Sarah D. uchess of lVlar/boro ~ ~ 1 singled ~11 out as one of the only three Whigs vvho did not treat her in an · singled ~11 IC) f) infamous manner. Sir Gilbert, she writes, was alvvays the same to me ...

... area and other clvlc dignatories, and to have acted as a debatin~ , drinking and wagering club. Politically, the Club was pro-Whig and, in 1813, Lord Belgrave became a member of the Incorporation. Lord Belgrave was elected MP for Chester in 1821 and was ...