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GIBSIDE, COUNTY DURHAM-11

... revealed by the divinely in pired minds of artists. Whig statesmanship similarly aimed to free mankind to act according to inspired ph ilosophers' ideals of conduct. The moral impulsion of such Whig improvers as Temple at Stowe and Bowes at Gibside was ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1952
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1334 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Oct. 4th, 1924-. Copyrig ht . in their attribution. He appears to have occupied the house as early as 1716,

... of the Bedchamber. Such learned societies as the Royal and the Antiquaries at once elected him a Fellow. His position as a Whig leader and supporter of the elder Pitt's European policy during the Seven Years' War led to his resigning his Bedchamber office ...

Published: Saturday 04 October 1924
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 828 | Page: 59 | Tags: none

Standard, that is being lowered from the masthead of the yacht, so that, presumably, it is not a royal visit

... dying without issue in 1727 he made it possible for his title to be revived fifteen years later and conferred on the great Whig Prime Minister whose removal great-niece's husband helped to engineer. (To be wncluded) royal visit depicted his joining uprights ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1953
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 301 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

T HE rest of the Birthday List was meritorious rather than

... gures who belonged, properly, to the tradition of a vanished age. Coming from a family of statesmen, he was brought up in the Whig tradition, and as a statesman, rather than as a politician, he served his country for forty years. The historian of the future ...

Published: Saturday 11 June 1927
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 288 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

LYDIARD TREGOZ, WILTS.-11

... cabinet -provoking his Attainder as a traitor- discredited the Tories for a generation, confirming in office and wealth the Whigs with their Palladian puritanism. The respective architectural convictions of the two parties were immediately demonstrated ...

Published: Friday 26 March 1948
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2099 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

common with what we know of Hawksmoor's architectural language'

... circle of patrons; the fact that he was created Lord Lempster in 1692 alone shows that he must have been in with the ruling Whigs. A more direct connection comes through his marriage the same year to Sophia Osborne, the daughter of Thomas Osborne, Marquess ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: 56 | Tags: none

100 land cape school improving nature over a large area. Mr. sex, within the rather narrow limits of the landscape

... It was, therefore, a match that confirmed the Lamb family's position in the inner circle of the Whig oligarchy, and led to William Lamb's remark, the Whigs are all cousins. She was a girl with good looks and active brain, but wholly wayward and unbalanced ...

Published: Saturday 18 July 1925
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 854 | Page: 61 | Tags: none

Here, wrote one of the numerous bards who celebrated the delights of Shugborough, Here mayst thMt oft regale in ..

... power . . . Safe from their servile yoke their arts command And Grecian domes erect in Freedom's Land. (Note the association of Whig liberty with Rococo taste.) Another erection that from its Rococo character can be assigned to this phase is the ruin, i ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 929 | Page: 52 | Tags: none

Over 12 years have elapsed since I last rode, as Major Victor McCalmont's

... oldest county hunt in Ireland. Power was a towering personality-an aesthete, collector of objets d'arts, amateur actor, leading Whig politician and Catholic emancipationist, of whom Daniel O'Connor said: No man has seen Ireland who has not seen John Power ...

Published: Thursday 11 February 1988
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 272 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

GOSSIP OF GREAT VICTORIANS

... 1858-1869-Clarendon held various cabinet positions, including the Foreign Office. H e was a ยทwhig, and the editor gives us a dictionary definition of a Whig as a Liberal opposed to further progress in democracy. There was a lot happening at this time ...

Published: Thursday 22 March 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: 95 | Tags: none

ROYAL MYSTERY

... Lees had neighbour Stowe, century, but had of Parliament garden reproduced beguiling images. But newly design embodying Whig olutely Whig. Sir Thomas previously eight pictures Of paintings merely possession and, expression of such, they take such garden years ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 824 | Page: 122 | Tags: none

6-THE GREAT SUBSCRIPTION ROOM. The group portraits are of the Society of Dilettanti, brought to Brooks's when ..

... comprised the instigators of the Reform bills and progressive legislation of all sorts, the club itself acting as a sort of Whig committee room to both Houses of Parliament. The site which William Brooks chose for his good new building on the corner ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 1978
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 950 | Page: 68 | Tags: none