Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

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

The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and their preeminent leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky.

Abraham Lincoln was the chief Whig leader in frontier Illinois.

Clay was the unquestioned leader of the Whig party nationwide and in Washington, but he was vulnerable to Jacksonian allegations that he associated with the upper class at a time when white males without property had the right to vote and wanted someone more like themselves.

Thus the Whig Party leader in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, simply abandoned politics after 1849.

Abraham Lincoln, its Illinois leader, for example, ceased his Whig activities and attended to his law business.

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.

Whig leader Henry Clay designed a compromise, which failed to pass in early 1850, due to the opposition of both pro-slavery southern Democrats, led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was " my ideal of a great man.

Whig Party leader Henry Clay sided with Daniel Webster on these issues.

William Seward was elected as U. S. Senator from New York as a Whig in 1849, and emerged as the leader of the anti-slavery " Conscience Whigs ".

Chamberlain earned a reputation for provocative speeches during the period, especially during debate on the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which was opposed by the Whig Liberals Lord Hartington and George Goschen, as well as the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, who argued that the Bill gave the Liberals an unfair electoral advantage and was prepared to block the Bill in the House of Lords unless it was accompanied by redistribution of seats into the suburbs.

Soon afterwards the Whig leader Lord John Russell declared in favour of repeal.

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.

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

Robert Augustus Toombs ( July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885 ) was an American and Confederate political leader, Whig Party Senator from Georgia, a founding father of the Confederacy, its first Secretary of State, and a minor Confederate general in the Civil War.

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

Whig leader William Seward found him " rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, original, and decided, in his political views and theories ".

Seeing this as a classic Pyrrhic victory, British Whig Party leader and war critic Charles James Fox echoed Plutarch's famous words by saying, " Another such victory would ruin the British Army!

He was a leader of the Whig Party.

In April 1783, North returned to power as Home Secretary in an unlikely coalition with the radical Whig leader Charles James Fox known as the Fox-North Coalition under the nominal leadership of the Duke of Portland.

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 ).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

" 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.

The Whig Prime Minister, Lord Grey, had Lord Howe removed from Adelaide's household.

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.