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A History of the County of Chester
… had been a Chester Cymmrodorion Society, Anglican and Tory in orientation, from 1822 but it evidently died out …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with his dean and chapter, who were not as completely Tory as might have been expected. The year 1680 saw a strange …
A History of the County of Warwick
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1689 Coventry was represented by the former members, the Tory, Cave, and the Whig, Stratford. At the election for the … Williamites and Whigs - were unsuccessfully opposed by the Tory Thomas Geary, supported by the Jacobites. Later in the … Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Bt., were returned instead and a Tory petition was left unconsidered by the Commons. 55 …
A History of the County of Warwick
… and this was the opposition of an amalgam of Anglican-Tory sentiment to the nonconformistradical alliance. This …
A History of the County of Leicester
… and it was now supported by a temporary revival of the old Tory spirit, roused by the call to defend the Church. The … was drawn up to express the contrast between 'What the Tory Corporation did' and 'What the new Corporation has done' … were to support the Conservative candidates. 109 So a Tory-Radical alliance was achieved; but its achievement in …
A History of the County of Leicester
… party . . . refused to act'. Sir Henry Beaumont as a good Tory deplored the putting out of 'loyal and complying … reign of Anne that the Leicester corporation acquired that Tory label which (not altogether without exception) it kept … died, still a bachelor, in 1737. Beaumont was an extreme Tory, who became a member of Bolingbroke's October Club. 120 …
A History of the County of Leicester
… the Restoration, the school was dominated by the High Tory corporation, and acquired a markedly Anglican …
A History of the County of Leicester
… the old town clerk, Thomas Burbidge, who had been a bitter Tory partisan, 16 and appointed in his stead Samuel Stone. 17 … which had acted for the old corporation 34 and had strong Tory connexions. 35 The actual keeping of the council's … the old-established Leicester Journal, which was Tory in outlook, the Liberal Leicester Chronicle, and the …