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.

In 1841, Jardine was elected to the House of Commons a Whig Member of Parliament ( MP ) representing Ashburton in Devon.

The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster.

Later in the century, the Whig MP Edmund Burke " admitted him into the whig pantheon ".

* James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl ( 1690 – 1764 ), Whig MP and lord of the Isle of Man, 1736 – 1764

However the Liberal Whig MP Charles Pelham Villiers proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to 1845.

* Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet ( 1765 – 1854 ), British Whig politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Great Grimsby 1812 – 18 and Peterborough 1819 – 47

In a letter to a friend on 24 December 1807, Palmerston described the late Whig MP Edmund Burke as possessing " the palm of political prophecy ".

* Jim Carter as Whig MP and leader of the opposition Charles James Fox.

Another close friend esteemed by Mackintosh was Richard Sharp MP also known as Conversation Sharp and both men belonged to the famous Whig conversation club, the King of Clubs.

When a government headed by the Whig magnate Lord Rockingham came to power in 1765, North left his post and served for a time as a backbench MP.

He came from a wealthy and long-established Scots land-owning family and was a Whig MP, a Fellow of the Royal Society, an improving landlord, and a patron of Robert Burns.

From 1837 to 1841, Stroud's MP was Lord John Russell of the Whig party who was later to become Prime Minister.

Grosvenor was elected as Whig MP for Chester in 1847 and continued to represent that constituency until, on the death of his father in 1869, he succeeded as 3rd Marquess of Westminster and entered the House of Lords.

He was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the borough of Camelford 1802-1806 as a member of the Whig party following members of his wife's family, Samuel Martin and Sir Ralph Payne.

In 1818 Grosvenor was elected as Whig MP for Chester and was later appointed as a Justice of the Peace.

* David Barclay ( MP ) ( 1784 – 1861 ), English Whig politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) 1826 – 30, 1835 – 37 and 1841 – 47

William Turner was elected MP for Blackburn as a Whig in 1832, serving until 1841.

Whatever its weaknesses, ethical or aesthetic, may have been, The Monk did not interfere with the reception of Lewis into the best society ; he was favourably noticed at court, and almost as soon as he came of age, in 1796, he obtained a seat in the House of Commons as a Whig Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hindon in Wiltshire.

Lord Spencer was Whig Member of Parliament for Northampton from 1780 to 1782 and Whig MP for Surrey from 1782 to 1783.

( He was a Whig MP for Woodstock from 1705 to 1716.

From 1695 to 1698 he stood as Whig MP in both the English and Irish Parliaments, representing Camelford and Dublin City respectively.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

In 1830, Charles Grey, a life-long Whig, became Prime Minister determined to reform the electoral system.

The Whig Sir Charles Wood and the Tory Disraeli had both been perceived to have failed in the office and so this provided Gladstone with a great political opportunity.

* November 22 – The Whig Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey succeeds Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Both parties began as loose groupings or tendencies, but became quite formal by 1784, with the ascension of Charles James Fox as the leader of a reconstituted " Whig " party ranged against the governing party of the new " Tories " under William Pitt the Younger.

The term ' Whig ' entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 when there was controversy about whether or not King Charles II's brother, James, should be allowed to succeed to the throne on Charles's death.

The colours of the Whig party were particularly associated with Charles James Fox.

G. Charles James Fox and the Disintegration of the Whig Party, 1782 – 1794, ( 1971 )

" Wellington was replaced by the Whig reformer Charles Grey, who had by this time the title of Earl Grey.

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey | Lord Grey ( painted by George Hayter ) headed the Whig ministry that ushered the Reform Bill through Parliament.

Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were killed or forced into exile.

After Lord North's ministry collapsed in 1782, the Whig Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham was appointed Prime Minister.

The county was organized January 29, 1841 as Kinderhook County and renamed in 1843 for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Chancellor of England, and leader of the Whig Party.

* The 18th century Whig radical Charles James Fox preferred faro to any other game, as did 19th-century American con man Soapy Smith.

Nash was a dedicated Whig and was a friend of Charles James Fox through whom Nash probably came to the attention of the Prince Regent ( later King George IV ).

The Trumansburg Central School District consists of the Elementary School, Russel I. Doig Middle School, and Charles O. Dickerson High School, all of which share a campus at 100 Whig Street.

Under Durell, the future statesman Charles James Fox matriculated in 1764 ( Hertford, unusually for Oxford, was a Whig College ).

Although it was not used as his main residence, his wife Georgiana Spencer, a prominent but controversial figure in fashion and politics whom he married in 1774, used the house as a retreat and as a Whig stronghold for many years, being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806.

She was involved in promoting Charles James Fox ( who died in the Bed Chamber of the Villa in 1806 ) and his Whig party.

Lady Burlington died in this bedchamber in 1758, as did the Whig leader Charles James Fox in 1806.

Charles James Fox PC ( 24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806 ), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

However, the new Parliament was overshadowed by rebellion, led in Scotland by the Earl of Argyll, and in England by Charles II's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, who, encouraged by malcontents and various Whig conspirators ( exiled for their part in the failed Rye House plot ), prepared to take what he considered rightfully his – the crown of England.

Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Earl Malton in 1750, was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime Minister of Great Britain.