... victor of La Hogue, defeating a French fl eet sent in support of J ames 11. Thereafter, he was an influential member of the Whig 'junto'. MP for Cambridgeshire, he was created Earl of Orford in 1697. He clearly spent a great deal of money on Chippenham ...

... Fitzgerald writes in ;Br6 that the vices are wonderfully prolific among the whigs : there are such counties illegitimates, s uch a tribe of childreu of the mist. The ideal of this Whig world was the R enaissance into their pleasures with an animal Happy ...

... hardly fail to have an interest in architecture. Later, after a fire, he would employ Henry Holland, an architect with a strong Whig connection, to rebuild Oatlands in Surrey; and a notice which appeared in The World of March 28, 1788, referring to the Duke's ...

... CHESTERFIELD HOUSE, MA.YFAIR.-I Feb. 25th. 19:l2. COUNTRY LIFE. BY H. AVRAY TIPPING. A O G the mansions that the great Whig Lords erected in the eighteenth century for their London habitations that which the fourth Earl of Chesterfield was completing ...

... took up Canning's cause, convinced of her innocence, was none other than the high-profile Whig crimebuster and novelist Henry Fielding. Against him, sceptical of Whig social reforms, were ranged no less than the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Crisp Gascoyne; ...

... rooms of the house, which was discussed last week. This unusual concern for authentic detail is immediately proclaimed by the Whig-blue paint of all the park gates. In latter years, this had slipped into a bland British Standard Royal Blue. by JOHN MARTIN ...

... James II by Catherine Sedley, the two probably came together. There is little apparent connection between the enthusia tic Whig and the Jacobite Duchess who kept up r·egal State in the house that was to become the home of George 111. How it got to Southill ...

... vVright, best remembered by his designs for a Senate Hou e for Cambridge of which the Library alone was built . . Wright wa a Whig architect, employed to design Clumber by the Duke of Newcastle, and, by his interest, holding successive appointment in the ...

... Millar, owe a debt of Whig of August 16, 1835, reported that very heavy expense from a design talented young townsman, Mr the lovers of classical architecture at a of a whom erected supervision Architect, to gratitude. The Whig critic noted that the ...

... individuality. It is group rather than personal architecture. certainly suited to its environment. It is the seat of a Whig magnate in a Whig demesne. The elegant but very artificial civilisation that sought to combine classic dignity with the picturesque ...

... the West Country, Shaftesbury, fearful of arrest, fled to Holland and there died, and Monmout h became leader of t he rebel Whigs. But, although that winter saw him very active in his clandestine role, he found time to take part in one more very important ...

... Member son Thomas, who succeeded m r 640, besides being a colonel in the Army, also served in the Commons, evidently as a strong Whig and Protestant, in the time of Charles II and his brother, for we hear that he was thrice unanimously chosen a representative ...