Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who had succeeded Peel as Prime Minister and like Rothschild a member for the City of London, introduced a Jewish Disabilities Bill to amend the oath and permit Jews to enter Parliament.

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

As Prime Minister of the Peelite / Whig coalition government, the Earl of Aberdeen eventually led Britain into war on the side of the French / Ottomans against the Russian Empire.

For the next 17 years until 1801 ( and again from 1804 to 1806 ), Pitt, the Tory, was Prime Minister in the same sense that Walpole, the Whig, had been earlier.

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

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

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

After Lord Grey resigned as Prime Minister in July 1834, the King was forced to appoint another Whig to replace him, as the Tories were not strong enough to support a government.

While he was less radical than many, when Lord Grey resigned ( July 1834 ), Melbourne was widely seen as the most acceptable replacement among the Whig leaders, and became Prime Minister.

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

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

In 1733 Lord Burlington resigned his positions within the government and went into active opposition against Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister who was regarded as corrupting British politics and Whig values.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

Although at first a Whig, he later became a Tory and served three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC ( 18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878 ), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

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.

Henry Pelham ( 25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754 ) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

George Grenville ( 14 October 1712 – 13 November 1770 ) was a British Whig statesman who rose to the position of Prime Minister of Great Britain.

He was a noted Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1834 and from 1835 to 1841.

A young Whig, William Lamb ( the future Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister ) wrote an ‘ Epistle to the Editors of the Anti-Jacobin ’, which attacked Canning:

* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ( 1792 – 1878 ), English Whig and Liberal politician ( Prime Minister for two consecutive terms )

His father Charles Greville was a son of 1st Earl of Warwick, and his mother was Lady Charlotte Bentinck, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland ( former leader of the Whig party and Prime Minister ).

Grenville was the son of Whig Prime Minister George Grenville His mother Elizabeth, was daughter of the Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham Bart.

William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC ( 14 April 1738 – 30 October 1809 ) was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain, serving in 1783 and again from 1807 to 1809.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

Indeed, Lord Aberdeen's own dislike of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, the rejection of which he failed to secure in 1851, prevented him from joining the government of Whig government of Lord John Russell in 1851.

Lord Russell was the leader of the Whig Party, the largest group in the coalition government.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

In 1816 Lamb was returned for Peterborough by Whig grandee Lord Fitzwilliam.

He told Lord Holland that he was committed to the Whig principles of the Glorious Revolution but not to " a heap of modern additions, interpolations, facts and fictions ".

Though a Whig, he accepted ( 29 April 1827 ) the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland in the moderate Tory governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich.

Thus, George promoted his old tutor, Lord Bute to power and broke with the old Whig leadership surrounding the Duke of Newcastle.

The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.

Whig leaders, such as Lord Grey, Lord Grenville, Lord Althorp, William Lamb ( later Lord Melbourne ) and Lord John Russell were all rich landowners.

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.

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.

Using his Whig victory as a mandate for reform, Grey was unrelenting in the pursuit of this goal, using every Parliamentary device to achieve it.

" 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.

Palmerston's reputation as an interventionist and his unpopularity with the Queen and other Whig grandees was such that when Lord John Russell attempted in December 1845 to form a ministry, the combination failed because Lord Grey refused to join a government in which Palmerston should resume the direction of foreign affairs.

Grey and Melbourne were of the Whig party, and their governments saw parliamentary reform, the abolition of slave trading throughout the British Empire, and Poor Law reform.

He quickly became a fixture in London society and gained the friendship of Lord Grey and other leading Whig politicians.

Shaw-Lefevre was the son-in-law of the sister of Lord Grey, the Whig Prime Minister, which advanced his career greatly.

He served as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and as Lord Privy Seal and was Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834 in the famous Whig government of Lord Grey.

A grandson of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and nephew of Charles James Fox, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1830 and 1834 and again between 1835 and his death in 1840 in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne.

However, he split with the Tories over electoral reform and later served as a member of the cabinet in the Whig administrations of Lord Grey and Lord Melbourne as Minister without Portfolio between 1830 and 1834 and once again as Lord Privy Seal between July and November 1834.

He was a Whig politician and held minor office under Lord Grey, Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell.

He notably held office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ( Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) in the Whig administration of Lord Grey.

Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, PC ( 11 May 1799 – 9 September 1882 ) was a British Whig politician.

He did not hold office in the Whig administration of his uncle Lord Grey, but when Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister in 1834, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.