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.

This concession, together with the Whig Party's internal divisions and the difficulties faced by the nation's economy, allowed the Tories under Sir Robert Peel to make gains in the elections of 1835 and 1837, and to retake the House of Commons in 1841.

Caroline struck up a friendship with politician Sir Robert Walpole, a former minister in the Whig government who led a disgruntled faction of the party.

The new King, George I and the Prince of Wales both had significant holdings in the company as did some prominent Whig politicians, including James Cragg, the Earl of Halifax and Sir Joseph Jekyll.

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

Such men were Lord John Cavendish, Sir George Savile, and others whom we hold in honour as the second founders of the Whig party, as the restorers of its pristine health and energy after half a century of degeneracy.

He was one of the leaders of the Whig party in Scotland in its days of darkness prior to the Reform Act of 1832, and was a close friend of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.

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.

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

The 19th century view of intense mutual resentment, reflected in the popular legends of Robin Hood and the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, may have been considerably exaggerated ( see Whig history ).

Sir Robert Clayton, a Lord Mayor of the City of London and wealthy merchant became owner in the mid-1650s and after his death in 1707 the island was sold to William Benson, a Whig Member of Parliament and architect.

When H. A. L. Fisher in 1928 gave the Raleigh Lecture on The Whig Historians, from Sir James Mackintosh to Sir George Trevelyan he implied that " Whig historian " was adequately taken as a political rather than a progressive or teleological label ; this put the concept into play.

After a period of political manoeuvring, during which time he was for a while associated with a Whig faction led by James Stanhope, from 1720 Newcastle began to identify strongly with the Government Whigs, who had quickly come to be dominated by Sir Robert Walpole.

The interval of Sir Robert Peel's administration ( 1841 – 1846 ) was to the leaders of the Whig party a period of repose ; but Lord Clarendon took a strong interest in the triumph of the principles of free trade and in the repeal of the corn laws, of which his brother, Charles Pelham Villiers, had been one of the earliest champions.

Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax GCB PC ( 20 December 1800 – 8 August 1885 ), known as Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Bt between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig politician and Member of Parliament.

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.

He inherited strong Whig principles and was a loyal supporter of the Hanoverian Protestant succession, but also admired Sir Robert Walpole ’ s peaceful foreign policy.

Edgcumbe was a faithful follower of the Whig Sir Robert Walpole, in whose interests he managed the elections for the Cornish boroughs, and his elevation to the peerage, which took place in 1742, was designed to prevent him from giving evidence about Walpole's expenditure of the secret service money.

Her first recorded stage appearance may have been as early as 1681 in D ' Urfey's Sir Barnaby Whig.

It was created on 17 July 1848 for Sir Patrick Bellew, 7th Baronet, who had previously represented Louth in the House of Commons as a Whig and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Louth.

It was created in 1848 for the Whig politician and diplomat Edward Stanley ( 1802 – 1869 ), son of the politician Sir John Stanley, 7th Baronet.

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.

* 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.

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

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.