... of Com- mons as member for Winchelsea in 1826. Lord Howick, as be was then known, like his father, was a member of the old Whig party, then in a somewhat forlorn and hopeless condi- tion. He speedily distinguished himself as a bold, if not. a very brilliant ...

... public career In the lower house, voted on all eccasions with the whig party, and, although an un- frequent speaher in the House of Peers, invariably supportd the views and measures of the whig gorern- ments. On the death of his father, in October, 1839, he ...

... represent them in parliament. Speculation is rife as to the probable results of this movement, as it is not known how the great whig landlords will look upon this attempt to introduce a stranger without their having been consulted. As we intimated yesterday ...

... Brabazon. Lord Besborotgh was through life a consistent Whig, but a very honour- able and amiable mars. His political errors were hereditary, his good qualities, his own. We believe that no member of the Whig party was regarded by political opponents with warmer ...

... was a bencher of that society, and had filled the office of treasurer. From his earliest years Mr. Tancred was a reformer, a Whig and something more ; one of the older members of Brooks's Club, and a member of the Reform Club on the first institution of ...

... by the I b5ketobes ot thi ITish Bar. in which series he was joined by Sbeil. lr. W. H. Ctrran'sepooiality was s a literary whig. Hewas a memberof theewsigpolitiscalparty for many yeare,-sand he watchbed the game of politics with keen interest. His early ...

... EARL FoRTESCcuz, K.s., died on Saturday, in his seventy-ninth year. lie bad for many years been a zealous supporter of the Whig party, and had done good service to his political friends during his long career in the House of Commons, more especially during ...

... lordship was a Whig of the Fox sehool, we acknowledge that his political principles were unsound, and that his prac- tice was necessarily and violently inconsistent even in the applieation of hi.i unsound principles. No manl could dhelre to the Whig party with ...

... meshes of the Whig nets spread' for their destruction. The Whig Government has been challenged to dismiss Lords Ox- MfANTowN and CHARLE VILLE; and (consistent at any rate in one thing) practising the cowardice which they preach, the Whig Government refuse ...

... his essay on Milton, in the Edinburgh Review, drew upon him the attention of the entire reading public. The leaders of the whig party, in acknowledgment of his literary superiority, appointed Mr. Macaulay a commissioner of bankruptcy, and in 1830 he entered ...

... editor of that journal. In the country lie was a popularfaiourite, though the plain speakiug he had practised towards the Whigs, wham he regarded as false to the cause of progress, lost him his seat at the general election in August, :1837. lie regained ...

... younger brother of the Reeorder of Leeds, whose daughter married Sir Fransis Wood, a whig. baronet, and whose grandson is Sir Charles Wood, a Cabinet Minister under several Whig adminis- trations.' Mrs. Clarkson was for many years confined to the couch of an ...