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Survey of London
… 'a lawyer of an enterprizing Head and a jovial Heart', and Tory M.P. for Truro. 31 On 22 November Collier went to the … become void, and in the ensuing political revolution the Tory Collier became a liability to the theatre. The …
Old and New London
… will not be out of place. In 1810 he was committed by a Tory House of Commons for a bold letter which he had written …
Old and New London
… says in the Freeholder, "was to the lions. My friend (the Tory Foxhunter), who had a great deal of talk with their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… then and long afterwards the predominant High Church and Tory college. 37 Non-juring sentiment long remained strong … ears in division about High Church and Low Church Whig and Tory.' 40 After 1689 the University moved into quieter days. … Master of Caius, who had been elected in November 1717 by Tory votes, and who was thus from a party point of view …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… political sympathies of the University were, in general, Tory and ultra-Protestant. The anti-slavery movement also … and the Master of Trinity, Wordsworth, who was a high Tory and strict disciplinarian, with a very high idea of his … against the aggressions of the state. As both a sound Tory and a Cambridge graduate, he made a strong appeal to …
Old and New London
… by a writer in the Times, "being symbolical of the Tory party, while the brown may possibly have been adopted in …
Old and New London
… and Hampden Should serve all the projects of hot-headed Tory? But much more untoward To appoint my Lord Howard Of his …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… a warm Debate, notwithstanding the Opposition of some Tory Members, it was carried by a great Majority, That they …
Old and New London
… friend, Harley, Earl of Oxford, in the year 1711. The new Tory Government was less popular than the Whig one it had … speculation. According to Gibbon the historian, it was the Tory directors who were stripped the most unmercifully. "The …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Parliament from 1802 to 1820; he is described as 'a high Tory and firm Churchman, but strenuous Protestant.' He had a …
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