the Whigs in the 1840s The Whig Party, a supposed revival of the historical Whig party, launched in 2014 Whiggovernment, a list of British Whig governments...
history, "whig history" (lowercase) is preferred. In the British context, whig historians emphasize the rise of constitutional government, personal freedoms...
The Whig Junto is the name given to a group of leading Whigs who were seen to direct the management of the Whig Party and often the government, during...
appointed by the Prime Minister. The young Queen was so attached to her Whig ladies of the bedchamber that after Melbourne's resignation in 1839, she...
The Whig Split occurred between 1717 and 1720, when the governing British Whig Party divided into two factions: one in government, led by James Stanhope;...
The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...
This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing...
Whig Lord John Russell led the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1846 to 1852. Following the split in the Tory Party...
of all the talents." A.D. Harvey, "The Ministry of All the Talents: The Whigs in Office, February 1806 to March 1807." Historical Journal 15#4 (1972):...
1968, p. 216 Thompson, Andrew. "William Pitt 'The Elder' (Whig, 1766-1768)". History of Government. Retrieved 6 July 2019. Jensen 1968, p. 219 Jensen 1968...
election saw Henry Pelham's Whiggovernment increase its majority and the Tories continue their decline. By 1747, thirty years of Whig oligarchy and systematic...
leader of the Whig administration. However, he was later demoted to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland when he was outmanoeuvred by his rival Whigs, who formed...
Walpole ministry was led by Whig Prime Minister Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, from 1730 to 1742—when Walpole left the government. 1734 British general...
after Whig politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne declared his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a government bill...
of the Whigs, first formed a government by popular demand in 1855, after the resignation of the Aberdeen Coalition. Initially, the government was a continuation...
Newcastle had formed a new administration of Whigs. He remained in power until 1756 when his government collapsed following the fall of Minorca and the...
unpopular Whiggovernment lost ground to the Tories and the opposition Whigs, but still had a secure majority in the House of Commons. The Patriot Whigs were...
broke out in 1775, radical Patriots (also known as Whigs) took control of the provincial government, and drove many Loyalists out of the province. Georgia...
to the government of Robert Walpole in the House of Commons in 1725, when William Pulteney (later 1st Earl of Bath) and seventeen other Whigs joined with...
The Radical Whigs were a group of British political commentators associated with the British Whig faction who were at the forefront of the Radical movement...
no confidence to defeat a ministry was in 1742 against Robert Walpole, a Whig who served from 1721 to 1742 and was the de facto first prime minister to...
included the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 and the various Corn Laws. The Whiggovernment of Earl Grey passed the Great Reform Act in 1832. Essentially, England...
The history of the United States Whig Party lasted from the establishment of the Whig Party early in President Andrew Jackson's second term (1833–1837)...
was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Whiggovernment of Earl Grey denying the right of the poor to subsistence. It completely...
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