It is a Whig history of the `` Tory reaction '' which preceded the Reform Bill of 1832, and it uses the figure of Grey to give some unity to the narrative.

Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.

Whig history is liberal historiography, written to show the inevitable progress of mankind.

Strongly entrenched in an organic but very English Catholicism, advocating culturally traditionalist and agrarian values, directly challenging the precepts of Whig history — Belloc was nonetheless an MP for the Liberal Party and Chesterton once stated " As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism.

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An article in the Oneida Whig published soon after the convention described the document as " the most shocking and unnatural event ever recorded in the history of womanity.

Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.

It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill.

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" The Oneida Whig did not approve of the convention, writing of the Declaration: " This bolt is the most shocking and unnatural incident ever recorded in the history of womanity.

This model of human progress has been called the Whig interpretation of history.

Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History ( 1931 ) attacked Whig history.

Butterfield says, rightly, that in the nineteenth century the Whig view of history became the English view.

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John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham GCB, PC ( 12 April 1792 – 28 July 1840 ), also known as " Radical Jack " and commonly referred to in Canadian history texts simply as Lord Durham, was a British Whig statesman, colonial administrator, Governor General and high commissioner of British North America .< ref >

* August 16, 1841: President Tyler's veto of a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States led Whig Party members to riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U. S. history.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

The Whig party further split over the French Revolution, with Burke writing to Fitzwilliam on 4 January 1797: " As to our old friends, they are so many individuals, not a jot more separated from your Lordship, than they are from one another.

" There was further discontent in the coalition cabinet at Goderich's vacillation over the appointment of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, once again caught between the demands of the King and those of his Whig allies.

After the dissolution of 1833 the Whig government had been slowly dying, and was further weakened by Althorp's promotion to the House of Lords following the death of his father in 1834.

His main concern was that the Whig party would restart the war with France and put the country further into debt, which would in turn require greater taxation of land owners.

With the mass-resignation from the Whig Club of Burke and other conservative Whig MPs, Fitzwilliam wrote to Lady Rockingham on 28 February 1793 and spoke of the Whig party split into three factions: those who wholeheartedly support the Revolution ; those who wholeheartedly condemn it, support the government and wish for a war to destroy it ; and the third ( which Fitzwilliam identified with ) " thinking French principles ... wicked and formidable, are ready to resist them " by supporting the government's " measures of vigour " but " engaging for nothing further ".

Lyell was convinced that animals were also driven to spread their territory by overpopulation, but Darwin went further in applying the Whig social thinking of struggle for survival with no handouts.

His popularity in a Whig district further helped his standing in the party.

" This declaration was meant to scotch any Whig interpretation that parliament had given him the kingdom ... convince the Tories that he was no usurper.

Butterfield's book on the ' Whig interpretation ' marked the emergence of a negative concept in historiography under a convenient phrase, but was not isolated.

Aspects of the Whig interpretation are apparent in films, television, political rhetoric, and even history textbooks.

The interpretation of actual Whig intentions at this time is complicated by colonial schemes in America.

Sudeley is an historian who has written a history of the English Gentleman for a German pharmaceutical magazine Die Waage, read by 30, 000 German doctors ; and is completing a history of the House of Lords to give ascendancy to its Tory as opposed to Whig history interpretation.

A given " Whig interpretation of history " is now a general label applied to various historical interpretations.

This interpretation was presentist because it did not depict the past in objective historical context, but instead viewed history only through the lens of contemporary Whig beliefs.

" However, the Whig historian, Thomas Macaulay, denigrates Marlborough throughout the pages of his History of England who, in the words of historian John Wilson Croker, pursues the Duke with " more than the ferocity, and much less than the sagacity, of a bloodhound.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC ( 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859 ) was a British poet, historian and Whig politician.

The Liberal historian Lord Acton read Macaulay's History of England four times and later described himself as " a raw English schoolboy, primed to the brim with Whig politics " but " not Whiggism only, but Macaulay in particular that I was so full of ".

Though he was never cited by name, there can be no doubt that Macaulay answers to the charges brought against Whig historians, particularly that they study the past with reference to the present, class people in the past as those who furthered progress and those who hindered it, and judge them accordingly ".

... is not simply partisan ; a judgement, like that of Firth, that Macaulay was always the Whig politician could hardly be more inapposite.

Of course Macaulay thought that the Whigs of the seventeenth century were correct in their fundamental ideas, but the hero of the History was William, who, as Macaulay says, was certainly no Whig ... If this was Whiggism it was so only, by the mid-nineteenth century, in the most extended and inclusive sense, requiring only an acceptance of parliamentary government and a sense of gravity of precedent.

The Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay was an admirer of Rockingham and his Whig faction:

Hallam, like Macaulay, ultimately referred political questions to the standard of Whig constitutionalism.

Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.

The Whig historian T. B. Macaulay wrote in 1841:

The Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay said of Sidney in 1828:

However in 1848 Macaulay wrote of the Whig opposition to Charles II:

While Macaulay was a popular and celebrated historian of the Whig school, his work did not feature in Butterfield's 1931 book.

The Whig historian Lord Macaulay said of Godolphin in 1848:

The Whig historian Thomas Macaulay, writing in the nineteenth century, held Somers in high esteem:

The Whig historian Lord Macaulay said of Lord Nottingham in 1848:

Zachary returned often to Rothley, and on one long visit in 1800 his wife Selina ( née Mills ) gave birth to poet, historian and Whig politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay.