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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Bethnal Green. 9 King, a 'fine portly man', 'strong Tory', and sportsman, 10 started as a young campaigner …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… little to the electors, who were willing to vote Whig or Tory depending on the size of the purse. The increased … position led to the development of clear Whig and Tory factions in the town. 57 The financial benefits that a … Bradshaw as a fellow Whig and convincingly defeated the Tory candidate, Pelham. There was no indication that the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… mayor-choosing by the 1820s. The 1824 election between a Tory surgeon, John Williams, and a Whig attorney, Henry …
Old and New London
… Sir Charles Wetherell, that titled, incomparable old Tory, joined in the attack, which Burdett chivalrously … House to imprison and fine without a trial by jury. The Tory lords spoke angrily; the Earl of Limerick called the … Queen's printers for thirty years. This Barber, a high Tory and suspected Jacobite, was Swift's printer and warm …
Old and New London
… of Lord Liverpool and Lord Sidmouth, and the rest of the Tory ministers. Adjoining the entrance to Messrs. Meux and …
A New History of London
… year, which still subsist, under the names of Whig and Tory. The court party reproached their antagonists with their … tories. Idem. Dr. Johnson defines these terms thus. "Tory; one who adheres to the antient constitution of the … doctors; according to which they might be thus defined. Tory, an advocate for arbitrary government, founded on the …
A New History of London
… valuable accession to that colony. The parties of whig and tory, still more inflamed by the change of government at the … excesses. Dr. Sacheverel, a bold insolent man of the tory party, with a very small share of religion, virtue, … for publishing it with a dedication to his lordship. The tory party magnified this sermon so highly, that about 40,000 …
A New History of London
… the sufferers, which was industriously fomented by the tory and jacobitical enemies to the present government. The …
A New History of London
… of disgusted whigs; for though the names of whig and tory were almost lost, the principles remained alive, and it …