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... infused into his work and that of his de igners. Equally he mastered, and was not mastered by, the Gallic sympathies ·of the Whigs. In nearly every room at outhill we see how his British temperament modified and humanised French motifs. It is, perhaps, ...
... 24, Nylon; 25, Tormentor. DOWN. 1, Srupendous; 2. Virulenr, 3, States; 4, Levy; 5, Childishly; 6, Beef stew; 7, Soviet; 8, Whig; 14, Affability; 15, Elderberry; 17, Plodding; 18, Rapacity; 20, Humble; 21Veneer; 22, Rant; 23, Murk. Winner 0f3892 is Rose ...
... provide a seat in the south of England commensurate with Lord Lumley's new station. Althoush the new house has the air of a Whig palace, and may have been built by the favoured architect of William Ill's court, William Talman, it was constructed two years ...
... 30, but to have been worked out in the lifetime of its possessor, who died in poverty. The plendid Sir George Wynne, local Whig opponent of his Tory neighbour Thomas Eyton during Walpole's long supremacy, seemed a whale among minnows in Flintshire while ...
... father of the Edmund who re-established connection with the Hungerford country by buying F yfield in 1688-coming in with the Whigs perhaps, as his ancestor had with Lancaster. According to a MS h i tory of the Hungedord in the British Mu3eum, compiled by ...
... cement an alliance with this important county family. But in county terms the Hobarts had lost a good deal of ground to their Whig neighbours and political allies, the Townshends, the Walpoles and the Cokes, who were now achieving unshakable dominance in ...
... 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 ...
... COUNTRY LIFE-JULY 7, 1983 She and the Duke opened their houses for the Liberal party in the tradition of the old Whig hostesses, great old Whig hostesses, and they made a formidable combination. Jewellery was bought to wear with her wardrobe from Worth-ropes ...
... the Grand Tour to catch the artistic and literary touch ·which was part of the education of our aristocracy in those clays of Whig oligarchy. He caught not only the re:>thetic but also the political spirit posed as a l\lrecenas, \Vith Crom\Yell's death his ...
... followed his father in being a determined and active Whig, and so rapidly became a pillar of his party in the House of Commons that when, in the autumn of 1704, he lingered on at Houghton the Whig leaders sent down James Stanhope and Spencer Compton (both ...
... hanging on the sentences that fell from Copyright. J ohnson's lips. The close friend of Charles J ames Fox, she drew the Whig party round her at Devonshire House and also at Chiswick, where we shall shortly meet her again. But this did not prevent the ...
... to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories know no argument but force. With equal skill, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument. The books were housed in the Catalogue Room and the West eighteenth century is only signalised ...