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.

The musician and musical historian Jane Clark, in her 1995 paper Lord Burlington is Here, claimed that Lord Burlington led a secret double life as a Whig aristocrat and loyal supporter of the newly installed Hanoverian regime, and as a Jacobite supporter who was secretly facilitating the return of the exiled Stuart monarchy.

This view has been supported by the historian Edward Corp, who has concluded, " there is now enough evidence available to suggest that Lord Burlington can no longer be regarded as the embodiment of a Whig ideal.

" 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 ".

Speck claims that " Macaulay's reputation as an historian has never fully recovered from the condemnation it implicitly received in Herbert Butterfield's devastating attack on The Whig Interpretation of History.

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

The noted historian E. H. Carr considered Trevelyan to be one of the last historians of the Whig tradition.

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

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

The British historian Herbert Butterfield coined the term " Whig history " in his short but influential book The Whig Interpretation of History ( 1931 ).

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.

According to Arthur Marwick, Hallam was the first Whig historian.

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

William Stubbs ( 1825-1901 ), the constitutional historian and influential teacher of a generation of historians, became a crucial figure in the later survival and respectability of Whig history.

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:

The adherents to this cause seized on English Whig political philosophy as described by historian Forrest McDonald as justification for most of their changes to received colonial charters and traditions.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

In the South, the Whig party vanished, but as Thomas Alexander has shown, Whiggism as a modernizing policy orientation persisted for decades.

Both William's paternal uncles Thomas and John were MPs while his aunt Lucy married the leading Whig politician and soldier General James Stanhope.

After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first Secretary of the Interior.

* Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton and Malmesbury ( 1648 – 1715 ), English Whig politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

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.

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.

His eldest son Thomas Anson represented Lichfield in the House of Commons as a Whig from 1789 to 1806.

* Thomas Brown ; Politics and Statesmanship: Essays on the American Whig Party.

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC ( 21 July 1693 – 17 November 1768 ) was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century.

But the Whig opposition soon collected itself, and the bill was fought in its various stages by Edmund Burke, Isaac Barré, Thomas Pownall and others.

With Doctor Thomas Young he was one of the most radical among the genteel Whig organizers who sought to steer public demonstrations in Boston after 1765.

As Thomas Alexander ( 1961 ) showed, there was persistent Whiggery ( support for the principles of the defunct Whig Party ) in the South after 1865.

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS ( 8 February 1790-7 February 1866 ) was a British Whig politician, who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839.

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC ( Ire ), FRS ( 28 April 1756 – 4 July 1826 ), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician.

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.

* Whig history further explains the Whig interpretation of history that Macaulay espoused.

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

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

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.