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... and lucidly wntttn and arranged; it is altogether Druery has long been recognised as an authority on the subject. NORTHERN WHIG.- Tee author understands h:s subject, and conveys his information in simple and practical language. The numerous illustrations ...
... belies the fact that Newdigate's career began, as it ended, in disaffection. Although Newdigate writes that he deplores the Whigs' long 'despotism', he argued Gothic rebuilding Arbury Hall associations by British Dugdale Society's Roger Newdigate (1995) ...
... singleminded pursuit of power and place. On the staircase of history Peel must be pushed down before Disraeli can move up: the Whigs must be dished over electoral reform ( 1867) ; improvements in housing and sanitation might be usefll l: and an GETTING TO ...
... Lucy Barlow, was officially married to the King (at Liege during Charles's exile), was endorsed by Lord Shaftesbury and other Whig grandees. persuaded him that he, Monmouth, should be Prince of Wales, and that he, and not his uncle James, must be heir to ...
... wished, as he told her, to be a queen indeed, and thus was spared the bitterness of witnessing the renewed triumph of the Whigs. He was succeeded, in due course, by both his sons, the elder of whom, as we have seen, did so much to make Badminton what ...
... Recent research into contemporary state Papers, diaries and memoirs (instead of, as hitherto, into scurrilous broadsheets and Whig pamphlets of the time) has done something to redress the balance. But, as Professor G. \\ T. Keeton points out in his masterly ...
... to the Whig society of the eighteenth century England, and l>e is able to make good case for believing would be quite at home Lord Melbourne and Devonshire. The fashionable he considers a well-tQ-dO Roman of Cicero's day transplanted to the Whig society ...
... son was already a prominent member of the ·whig Oppo i- t.ion in Padiament, and it is the stamp of his alert and progressive mind that Southill and its furnishings preserves so vividly. The heart of the ·whig Opposition was arlton Hou e, for the re-building ...
... THE frontispiece to this issue of_ Cou ITRY LIFE is a portrait of Miss Whlgham, only daughter of I\llr. and Mrs. George Hay Whig_ am of Queen's Hill, Ascot. Whignam's engagement to the Earl of Warwick has recently been announced. kingdom. Bill if fides ...
... pictures commis- sioned? The key to this lies in the meaning of the garden for, like Stowe, it is a Whig paradise. Sir Thomas sat in Parliament as a Whig, and the political affiliation of his garden is celebrated by a local poet, a Mr Merrick of Aylesbury: ...
... By David Daiches (Thames and Hudson, £3.50). By David Daiches by elder brother Thomas for election by the handful of stout Whigs of Old Sarum, he was indebted both to Thomas and to Sir Robert Walpole for a cornetcy in Cobham's horse would have cost him ...
... permanently crippled, and Swift's Journal to Stella describes him as walking with a stick and a crutch. The of the Whigs with return of the Whigs with George I depriYed him of the Command-in-Chief of Home Forces given him in 1712 ; but his pocket borough en ...