... step from Elizabeth to Charles I, whose going down meant the coming up of a new dominant class, which was to develop into the Whigs, and so at a rush we are in the beginnings of contemporaneity: a fairly sharp division between those who are primarily interested ...

... models is, of course, not accidental. It is probably a reflexion of a Whig aristocracy's unspoken claim to be like the Roman patriciate. If this is the essence of the much-quoted Whig architecture, Holkham Hall IS certainly its purest exponent. So it ...

... elghteenth century both town and castle were . entirely rebuilt, according to the very latest pnnCJples, by the progressive Whig dukes. All trace of the keep built by Black Sir Colin Campbell of Lochawe, about 1480, has disappeared, though Its walls, together ...

... Bridgeman, Kent, and Capability Brown. Reasons for seeing a close connection between the evolution of the garden design and of Whig political thought were suggested last week : Stowe's identification with Lord Cobham's patriot faction, that faction's fi ...

... strongly spiced and perfumed for English tastes But we stick to the rice and pilau and curries. Emily was a rather grand Whig lady, who could note in her journal when trekking far beyond Simla: the dear The Raj At (Faber 14.99) back to Surat fifty ...

... appointment to the French (7) 7. Cities pant (anagt·.) (10) 8. What life rnay seem to a carnet (10) 1 I . Where you sec a Whig you see a -- . -D·r. J olmson (6) J.J. Saw a quadruped, under the carriage, perhaps (7, 3) 15. Brutus the man (10) 17. Flowers ...

... explains how it haunted his son. I N 1745, Alderman William Beckford, the richest subject of the Crown and a hero of the populist Whigs in Parliament (Fig 5), bought Fonthill House in Wiltshire. He set about re- shaping its grounds with multiple garden buildings ...

... Countries, and was originally dedicated libertati majorum. This inscription stone disappeared, though Cobham nev.er dropped his Whig principles, and the liberty of our ancestors was found, when the last Duke of Buckingham was a boy, buried among a heap ...

... scholar's knowledge with an artist's sense of colour and tone. Their intention has been to recapture Althorp's spirit of reticent Whig elegance. As the photographs demonstrate, this has been triumphantly achieved. Immediately after taking over the house, Lord ...

... FARM I n deli ghlful surrounrlings mul close to travelling frwitities. 5 BEDIIOO}IS, 3 II.ECEPTION ROQ)(S, 2 HATHIWOMS, STAFF WHIG EXTENSI VE FARM BUI LDING S 28 ACRES By dil·ection of M iss Cecity de l ...

... even before his death in 1668. His successor the 3rd E arl was more of a political Whig and ardent supporter of the exclusion of the In 1671 he sold animal, a zealous Whig and ardent supporter of the exclusion of the Duke of York from the succession to ...

... needs to be told that she does it with her accustomed charm and erudition, though of course her view bia her against the great Whig man ions of the eighteenth century. It is a delightful addition to this attract ive series of illustrated es ay . Very many ...