At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

Most Whig party leaders thereupon quit politics ( as Lincoln did temporarily ) or changed parties.

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.

Hay ( 2000 ) argues that in the two decades after the defeat of Napoleon ( in 1815 ), Whig leaders welcomed the increasing political participation of the English middle classes.

Victoria refused to change her household, and despite pleadings from the Duke of Wellington, relied on assurances of support from Whig leaders.

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.

Webster's increasingly nationalistic views, and his effectiveness as a speaker, made him one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System.

Marlborough and Godolphin, now distanced from Anne, would henceforth have to conform to the decisions of a Whig ministry, while the Tories, sullen and vengeful, looked forward to their former leaders ' downfall.

In the article " The Protestant Interest " he pointed to the efforts of the Whig leaders to win support in Ireland by the promise of gratuity and places.

He was a friend of the Whig leaders Stanhope and Sunderland and supported the passing of the Septennial Act.

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.

He became a part of the Whig circle of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and the Prince of Wales, and soon became one of the major leaders of the Whig party.

In the modern era, the rather confused reporting of events was briefly satirised in Sellar and Yeatman's parody of Whig history, 1066 and All That, stating that the peasants revolted " in several reigns under such memorable leaders as Black Kat, Straw Hat, John Bull and What Tyler?

Jean Barillon mentions Sacheverell among the Whig leaders who accepted bribes from Louis XIV, but the evidence against him is not conclusive.

The Whig party was born during the Exclusion Crisis, and Shaftesbury was one of the party's most prominent leaders.

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.

He soon sat for another seat, Wendover, and became one of the leaders of the Whig opposition in the House of Commons.

Writing later in the eighteenth century, the Whig member of parliament Edmund Burke used the speeches of Whig leaders at the Sacheverell trial in his An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs ( 1791 ) to demonstrate true Whiggism ( as opposed to the beliefs of the Foxite ' New Whigs ').

He was severely censured for the disorder in Ireland, and an attempt was made to impeach him for his conduct with regard to the sentences on the Whig leaders.

In 1809 he became Marquess of Lansdowne ; and in the House of Lords and in society he continued to play an active part as one of the Whig leaders.

In January 1860, Brownlow asked Whig readers to " pray against the wicked leaders of Abolitionism and the equally ungodly advocates of Secessionism ," a statement which sums up his pre-Civil War stance on both issues.

They afforded an arena in which many future leaders of the Republic, such as James Madison ( Whig ) and Aaron Burr ( Clio ) developed and sharpened the skills of persuasion, exposition, and cooperation ( and conflict ) with peers.

Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

Van Buren's rather elegant personal style was also an easy target for Whig attacks, such as the Gold Spoon Oration.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

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.

The Whig Party, which had been one of the two major parties in the U. S., had disintegrated since the 1852 election over the issue of slavery, and new parties such as the Republican Party and American Party, or “ Know Nothing Party ” competed to replace it as a major party.

The Whig tendency supported the great aristocratic families, the Protestant Hanoverian succession, and toleration for nonconformist Protestants ( the " dissenters ," such as Presbyterians ), while some Tories supported the exiled Stuart royal family's claim to the throne ( Jacobitism ), and virtually all Tories supported the established Church of England and the gentry.

Ashcraft and Goldsmith ( 1983 ) have traced in detail in the period 1689 to 1710 the major influence of the liberal political ideas of John Locke on Whig political values, as expressed in widely cited manifestos such as " Political Aphorisms: or, the True Maxims of Government Displayed ," an anonymous pamphlet that appeared in 1690 and was widely cited by Whigs.

The Whig Lord John Russell brought forward one such measure in 1820, proposing the disfranchisement of the notoriously corrupt borough of Grampound in Cornwall.

Admired in his own time and for centuries after, Edward was denounced as an irresponsible adventurer by later Whig historians such as William Stubbs.

Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the Country Party, such as Lord Bolingbroke ( who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne ) and William Pulteney ( a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet ).

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.

Whig historians such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner described it as the founding of the United Kingdom's modern constitutional monarchy, and although revisionists have " virtually abolished " Gardiner's works, the Petition of Right is still considered an important moment, with Conrad Russell arguing that it was the " culmination of a national war crisis an ideological watershed ".

His paintings were praised by Whig luminaries such as John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele,

Stratford Canning was a Whig and would introduce his nephew in the 1780s to prominent Whigs such as Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

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!

His death was a large political loss to his allies, the Whig magnates such as Duke of Newcastle.

In 1847, Sumner denounced a Boston Representative's vote for the declaration of war against Mexico with such vigor that he became a leader of the Conscience Whigs faction of the Massachusetts Whig Party.

Officially, there was no such thing as " Whig and Tory " at the time, but the labels are useful and were certainly employed by writers themselves.

Michael Bentley analyses the " Whig theory " according to Butterfield as equivalent to the formation of a canon of 19th-century historians of England ( such as William Stubbs, James Anthony Froude, E. A. Freeman, J. R. Green, W. E. H. Lecky, Lord Acton, J. R. Seeley, S. R. Gardiner, C. H. Firth and J.

Most portrayals and fictionalized adaptations of the Scopes Trial, such as in Inherit the Wind ( 1955 ), subscribe to a Whig view of the trial and its aftermath.

" Throughout the Exclusion Crisis, Shaftesbury's Whig ( British political faction ) | Whig allies in the Green Ribbon Club engaged in anti-Catholic propaganda, such as mock processions, the climax of which involved burning the pope in effigy.

He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown, where he elaborated his Whig principles in support of the Exclusionists.