... greatly extolled by the Queen; those of Peel and Palmerston equally greatly censured. For neither the great Tory nor the great Whig had the Queen much to say. Peel offended her over the Bedchamber question Palmerston over foreign policy. It was, of course ...

... totally neglected on our stage. John Bull Calling shows us John Bull swathed on a sick-bed, nursed by Britannia. Dr. Tory, Dr. Whig, and Dr. Labour their names are different on the programme are squabbling about his ailment. He is ill, very ill, poor John ...

... up life at Balgowan. Political ambition remained unstirred; however, he did the orthodox thing in standing for Perth, in the Whig interest. He was defeated by six votes. In 1774, when Thomas was thirty-one, he met Mary, one of the four enchanting daughters ...

... Friend. By Capt. I I A. H. Trapman. (Hutchinson 7s. Gd.) J The Third Route. By Sir Philip Sassoon. I (Heinemann 15s.) The Whigs. By James Scott. (Richards: J 5s.) ...

... following year Hawthorne received the appointment of surveyor to the Custom House, retaining it until he was removed by the new Whig Administration which came into power three years subsequently. Though his decapitation, as Bridge calls it, was deeply vexatious ...

... their ever getting into it. Mr. Gourlay thinks the Dissent and Radicalism of Wales due to the ecclesiastical policy of the Whigs in the eighteenth century. Mr. Matlock has an admirable article, full of his incisive sentences, on Conservatism and Socialism ...

... of her impending marriage to S an Irish General Mr. R. W. Ketton-Cramer achieves a broad, i S scholarly portrait of the Big Whig of Straw- berry Hill in a reprint of a 1940 biography, S Horace Walpole (Faber, 21s.), which offers 2 us an absorbing escape ...

... heiress, and was created a baronet. Both Sir Bysshe and his son, Timothy (the poet's father), played a respectable part in Whig politics some advance ment may have been owed to the interest of their neighbour, the Duke of Norfolk the Duke, we learn, extended ...

... covered in this book being from 1886 to 1907. Sir George Leveson Gower writes of men and memories of a decade in which the old Whig families were still wielding considerable power and influence. He was a Whip in those Parliaments in which the great Liberal ...

... a science and had nothing to do with literature and that Carlyle and Macaulay were charlatans. The traditions of the great Whig historians were dominant and, for all that he was to follow in the steps of Acton, the line was clear. Colonel Melvin Hall ...

... Queen. No two men could have been more different. Sir Robert was a hard-drinking, sporting squire, well trusted by most of the Whigs, a man who had suffered already many reversals of political fortune, and was to suffer more. He combined a genius for control ...

... complicated campaigns of Marlborough, or Peterborough's eccentric flashes of genius at home the struggles for power between Whig and Tory in Parliament and country, the secret influences at work at the Court, the dominant figures of statesman, wits, and ...