... the Church of England, and in polities was a Whig of the old school: His family were long the agents of the Whig party at the old eleetions iniPreston. So prominently identified was his family with thes Whig party that they were never admitted in the ...

... the borough of Northampton. Connected by birth and relationship with the great Whig families of England, Lord Spencer naturally enough set out in his political course upon Whig principles, and attached himself, in the House, to that party which was determinedly ...

... passing of the Reform Act, discarded the old party name, and assumed the designation of Conservative. His opposition to the Whigs and to Reform was evinced to to such an extent that at the general election of 1830, immediately after the death of George ...

... and on account of his enlarged views and acknowledged abilities, and the support he had long and consistently given to the Whigs, he was invited by Earl Grey in 1830, when he received the royal commands to form an adminis- tration, to become a member of ...

... younger, has been known for the last fifty years as Coke of Norfolk. They have been respectively at the head of the Tory and Whig iniercst, in Norfolk, for two or three generations of ordinary men. Lord Wode. house has lived through the reigns of four monardts ...

... among the small but illustrious band of _ Reformers in the house ; he was long an active, a though not a forward, member of the Whig Op- position, for he soon attached himself to the for- a tunes of his own and his father's political friends. At v that time ...

... of parlihament was at the general election of 1807, when George the Third e dissolved parliament to get rid of Fox and the Whigs, and 5 by which he unfortunately sf cured a long lease of power I to Toryism, and its then attendants of political and comn- ...

... from the banquet hall to the great' Hall of Judgment, *as one of the shining lilhts and mfain stays of, the now almost effete Whig party. Like many other men of celebiity, it was his failure as a newspa. per man that opened the gates of success to him as ...

... of Don Roderick, the concluding stanzas of which are dedicated to his lordship's fame. I E In politics, Lord Lynedoch was a Whig; Although his extreme age and enfeebled health long unftted him for taking an active part in the turmoil of politice, he was ...

... metropolis abounds, yet, as all honorary member, he was nttached to almost every one. As a politician, the Doctor belonged to tboe Whig school, but lie never allowed politics to literfere %with lia ibenevolelice. Dr. Birkbeck was in the (;8thi year of his age ...

... Returning to England, and succeed. ing to the title of Lord Dundonald by his father's death, le was, on the accession of the Whigs to power in the ,first year of the reign of William IV. (1830), reinstated in his command in the British army, and made Rear-Ad- ...

... lecturers through the country; a few years afkerwards it raised a quarter of a million. Gradually the more ad- vanced of the Whigs gave their adhesion, and session after session the Parliamentary majority against Ml. Villiers became small by degrees and ...