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	Whig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of James II and VII from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners") and the Tories were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		It was around this time that the great Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay began to promulgate what would later be coined the Whig view of history, in which all of English history was seen as leading up to the culminating moment of the passage of Lord Grey's reform bill.
		The Whig view led to serious distortions in later views of 17th century history, as Macaulay and his followers attempted to fit the complex factional politics of the Restoration into the neat categories of early 19th century political divisions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whig_Party_(UK) (1421 words)

	Whigs (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term Whig originates from the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681 - the Whigs were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners") and the Tories were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		In the early Hanoverian period, the Whigs became the dominant party of government, due to the Tories' association with Jacobitism.
		The dangerous flirtation of the Whigs (and their leader, Charles James Fox) with Jacobinism in the early years of the French Revolution, as well as their strong support for Catholic emancipation, left them largely out of power for the period between 1783 and 1830.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/w/wh/whigs__uk_.html (525 words)

	William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.
		The next year he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Whig MP for Leominster.
		He was opposed to the radical governmental reforms proposed by the Whigs, but rather than forcing a breach he worked from within the party to prevent passage of the Reform Act 1832.
	www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/William_Lamb,_2nd_Viscount_Melbourne (874 words)

	United States Whig Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Whigs pledged themselves to Congressional supremacy, as opposed to the executive action taken by Jackson in removing deposits from the Bank without the consent of Congress, as well as his veto of the recharter of the Bank.
		By 1844 the Whigs were beginning to recover from their disaster of two years earlier and nominated Henry Clay, who lost to Democrat James K. Polk in a closely contested race, with Polk's policy of western expansion (particularly the annexation of Texas) and free trade triumphing over Clay's protectionism and caution over the Texas question.
		Whig Representative Lewis Campbell of Ohio was particularly distraught by the defeat, exclaiming, "We are slayed.
	www.infothis.com /find/United_States_Whig_Party (1104 words)

	Liberal Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Whigs were in favour of reducing the power of the Crown and increasing the power of the Parliament, and although their motives in this were originally to gain more power for themselves, the more idealistic Whigs gradually came to support an expansion of democracy for its own sake.
		The admission of the middle classes to the franchise and to the House of Commons led eventually to the development of a systematic middle class liberalism and the end of Whiggery, although for many years reforming aristocrats held senior positions in the party.
		In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Liberal_Party_(UK) (3917 words)

	Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Descended from a long line of Northumbrian gentry, Grey was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected to parliament at the age of 22 in 1786.
		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.
		His ministry was a notable one, seeing passage of the Reform Act 1832, which finally saw the reform of the House of Commons, and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833.
	www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey (704 words)

	Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Whig (UK)Whigs (initially an insult — whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James II of EnglandJames VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term ''tóraidhe'' — outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers/).
		George I, who had already formed a Whig ministry upon his accession in 1714, dismissed the remaining Tories from office and as a party they were confined to the wilderness for half a century, though occasionally individual Tories held office in the Whig ministries of George I and George II of Great BritainGeorge II.
		However, Pitt himself rejected the Tory label, preferring to refer to himself as an "independent Whig." The group surrounding Pitt the Younger came to be the dominant force in British politics from 1783 until 1830 and after Pitt's death the term "Tory" was increasingly used by its members, the first prominent one being George Canning.
	www.infothis.com /find/Tory (1336 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		It is, in effect, an attempt to overturn the verdict of the Glorious Revolution and restore the Stuarts.
		All this is a now thoroughly old-fashioned view, the "Whig interpretation of history" which has been derided by an unlikely and unlovely combination of neo-Tory and paleo-Marxist historians, denouncing 18th-century Whiggery from their quaintly different perspectives.
		These critics seem to think that the choice 300 years ago was between Whig oligarchy on the one side, and on the other secular social democracy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4209642,00.html (754 words)

	Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Whigs (initially an insult — whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James VII and II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí — outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		George I, who had already formed a Whig ministry upon his accession in 1714, dismissed the remaining Tories from office and as a party they were confined to the wilderness for half a century, though occasionally individual Tories held office in the Whig ministries of George I and George II.
		This was re-enforced by the breakup of the Whig party in 1794 when the conservative group led by the Duke of Portland joined Pitt's government - leaving an opposition rump lead by Charles James Fox.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tory.htm (1310 words)

	Prime Ministers in History
		Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1754-6 and 1757-62 Whig
		The Earl of Chatham, William Pitt 'The Elder' 1766-8 Whig
		William Bentinck, Duke of Portland 1783 and 1807-9 Whig
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page123.asp (495 words)

	Whig Party (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whig candidate presidents include General William Henry Harrison, 1840; John Tyler 1841–1845; General Zachary Taylor, 1849–1850; and Millard Fillmore 1850–1853.
		The party diverged over the issue of slavery: the northern Whigs joined the Republican party and the southern or ‘Cotton’ Whigs joined the Democrats.
		The title was taken from the British Whig Party, which supported Parliament against the king.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007131.html (157 words)

	Lord Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By this time Melbourne was a moderate Whig and had severe doubts about the wisdom of parliamentary reform.
		William IV was now in a much stronger position and after four months the king dismissed the Whig government and appointed the Tory, Sir Robert Peel as his new prime minister.
		As there were more Whigs than Tories in the House of Commons, Sir Robert Peel found government very difficult.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRmelbourne.htm (1176 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| Review
		In the 1780s the Lansdowne Whigs fought the Rockingham Whigs and, 10 years later, the Portland Whigs were glowering crossly at the Foxites.
		Yet Whig principles appeared so baggy and elastic that they were able to cosy up to pretty much anyone if it meant they could lurch through the next crisis and still get home in time for dinner (prepared, naturally, by a chef specially imported from Paris).
		It had been the Whigs, after all, who had stood up to the proto-Catholic Stuarts, and it had been Whigs who had invited the dull but necessary Dutch William and Mary to take over in 1688 to provide a future for Britain that was not only bright, but Orange.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1565473,00.html (451 words)

	Whig Party (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the UK, predecessor of the Liberal Party.
		The name was first used of rebel Covenanters and then of those who wished to exclude James II from the English succession (as a Roman Catholic).
		During the French Revolution, the Whigs demanded parliamentary reform in Britain, and from the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832 became increasingly known as Liberals.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009116.html (155 words)

	whig historu
		The Whig historian is not a card-carrying member of a specific school of history, but the victim of name-calling.
		The word ‘Whig’ has its origins (in the seventeenth century) as a term of abuse against political opponents, and has become a convenient label for one historian to attach to another as a mark of disdain.
		In the second place, Whig historians were prone to categorising their historical characters as those who favoured progress (the winners) and those (the losers) who did not.
	www.history-ontheweb.co.uk /concepts/whighistory53.htm (1061 words)

	1839Quincy Whig Articles (Sidney Rigdon Letter. etc.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His follow-up letter addressed to the Whig was never-printed, perhaps because the editors were by then wary of his verbal combativeness and crudities.
		Note 1: As the Whig editors had previously stated on June 29 and on July 6, Sylvester M. Bartlett and Henry V. Sullivan were determined to "close the door upon this controversy" regarding the Solomon Spalding claims for authorship of the Book of Mormon and related issues regarding Mormon leader Sidney Rigdon.
		Bartlett and Sullivan were spearheading local Whig efforts to overthrow the rule of the western Illinois Democrats and to put their candidate into the White House not many months hence.
	home1.gte.net /dbroadhu/RESTOR/Lib/Rig1839a.htm (4603 words)

	The Whigs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the late17th century the term Whig was used to describe those opposed to the religious policies of Charles II.
		By the 19th century their rivals in Parliament, the Tories, were the supporters of the established church and the traditional political structure.
		The Whigs, in contrast to the Tories, favoured reform.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pwhigs.htm (147 words)

	Britannia Government: Prime Ministers - Glossary of Terms
		Whig Party - UK politcal party that was in power from 1714-60.
		Tory Party - UK politcal party (1680-1830) that was the antecedant of the Conservative Party.
		After the defeat of the Jacobite army under the command of prince Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Jacobites disappeared from the English politcal landscape.
	www.britannia.com /gov/primes/defcon.html (278 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| UK Politics \| Conservative leaders' timeline
		The son of a Whig prime minister William Pitt took office at the age of 24 and went on to be one of the longest serving prime ministers.
		A former Whig the Earl of Derby became the focus for the protectionists after Peel's resignation.
		However the UK's application for membership of the EEC split his Conservative party and his handling of the Profumo Affair in which war minister John Profumo was forced to resign after an affair with a call girl was judged to be poor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/politics/4208074.stm (1379 words)

	Confessing Evangelical
		In the UK, this tends to be referred to (usually pejoratively) as "Thatcherism", though as a political and economic philosophy it long pre-dates Margaret Thatcher's term as Prime Minister.
		The picture is complicated by the fact that, in the UK, the "Whig" and "Tory" positions are now largely represented by a single political party, the Conservative Party, whose nickname is "the Tories".
		It's worth comparing this with the Political Compass site's estimated plots of UK political parties' positions on the compass, and of US presidential candidates' positions (the British/European perspective of the Political Compass can probably be seen in the fact that both Kerry and Bush are depicted as being some way to the right of centre).
	confessingevangelical.blogspot.com /2004_09_01_confessingevangelical_archive.html (5305 words)

	Tamworth Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tamworth Manifesto was a political manifesto issued by Sir Robert Peel in 1834 in Tamworth which is widely credited by historians, as having laid down the principles upon which the modern British Conservative Party is based.
		In November 1834 King William IV removed the Whig Prime Minister Lord Melbourne and asked the Duke of Wellington to form a ministry.
		Wellington was reluctant and recommended that the King choose Peel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamworth_Manifesto (313 words)

	Historical Figures - Abraham Lincoln
		In 1846 Lincoln was elected to one term in the House of Representatives as a member of the United States Whig Party.
		A staunch Whig, Lincoln often referred to Whig leader Henry Clay as his political idol.
		He declined, returning instead to Springfield, Illinois where, although remaining active in Whig Party affairs in the state, he turned most of his energies to making a living at the bar.
	www.dailypast.com /historical-figures/abraham-lincoln2.shtml (1317 words)

	Time Line
		His case caused a groundswell of public support for the Tories and was embarrassing to the Whig administration.
		The Whig ministry, which had dominated Parliament and a driving force behind Britain's involvement with the War of the Spanish Succession, was dismissed by Queen Anne in October.
		The Whig administration became unpopular as the war and associated taxation dragged on.
	www.history.uk.com /timeline/index.php?date=1710 (150 words)

	Articles - Tory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term Tory applied to the Tory Party, the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party.
		The Whigs (initially an insult â” whiggamore, a cattle driver) were those who supported the exclusion of James II from the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland (the "Petitioners"), and the Tories (from the Irish term tÃ³raidhe, modern Irish tÃ³raÃ â” outlaw, robber) were those who opposed it (the Abhorrers).
		Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry and the Church of England (or in Scotland the episcopalian church), while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders (or "land magnates"), expansion and tolerance.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Tory?mySession=7e3ba5d4032f1c2922f804cfab03c888 (2328 words)

	English 251: American Lit. (1600-1865)
		In 1846, for example, he had fired two Whig custom-house officers and replaced them with fellow Democrats; later he was involved in a kick-back scheme whereby his Democratic co-workers were given higher salaries than his Whig counterparts.
		When Massachusetts Whigs picked up this story, they blasted Hawthorne in the local papers and bided their time.
		With Taylor's 1849 inauguration, they sacked Hawthorne immediately; then, within weeks they were promising readers of the June 21, 1849, Salem Register a thorough "exposure of the rottenness of the Custom House managers," Hawthorne chief among them.
	www.uky.edu /AS/English/courses/online/eng251/assignment21.html (959 words)

	Welcome — Work and Health Information Gateway
		WHIG has a wide catalogue of resources related to work and health which can be accessed in a variety of ways.
		Create an account and become a registered user on the WHIG to open up new ways of using the site.
		You can be kept up-to-date with any new content, events, or other news on the WHIG.
	whig.org.uk (281 words)

	Gangs of NEW York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both the Whigs and the Democrats used gangs to bring in the votes and to cause disruption within the opposing parties.
		William Poole, Bill The Butcher, was a Whig and later became a member of the Native American or Know-Nothing party (anti-catholic and anti-immigrant).
		The Bowery Boys and American Guards had headquarters in the Bowery and in general were allied with the Whigs or Native American party.
	www.herbertasbury.com /gangsofnewyork (3497 words)

	1840 Parley P. Pratt tract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this 1840 tract Pratt announces his intention to reprint important articles from "some of the most respectable journals in the United States." The articles he selected for reprinting were: 1) Matilda Spalding Davidson's 1839 "Mormon Bible" article from the Boston Recorder; 2) Pratt's own Nov.
		Bartlett and Sullivan" of the Illinois Quincy Whig.
		Note 2: Although the wording of Pratt's tract provides the impression that the Haven and Rigdon letters were printed in "the most respectable journals," the former appeared first in the relatively obscure Quincy Whig and the latter epistle was perhaps not even printed in that frontier paper, though addressed to its editor (Mr.
	home1.gte.net /dbroadhu/RESTOR/Lib/Prt1840c.htm (4837 words)

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		This is a SEMA initiative to raise the standards of health and safety in the storage industry.
	www.hse.gov.uk /org/s.htm (2023 words)

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