Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when it merged with the Peelites...

The Whig Party is a political party in England which is intended to be a revival of the Whigs that existed in the United Kingdom from 1678 to 1868. The...

Look up Whig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Whig or Whigs may refer to: Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England,...

administration. The Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward...

a loosely organised political faction and later a political party, in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom...

The True Whig Party (TWP), also known as the Liberian Whig Party (LWP), is the oldest political party in Liberia and Africa as a whole. Founded in 1869...

the Whigs and the Tories. These were not political parties in the modern sense but somewhat loose alliances of interests and individuals. The Whigs included...

This is a list of the Leaders of the British Whig Party. It begins in 1830 as, in the words of J C Sainty, 'it would be misleading to convey the impression...

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...

earlier proposal. The Whig Party became badly split between pro-Compromise Whigs like Fillmore and Webster and anti-Compromise Whigs like William Seward...

most notorious instance of this tactic, borrowing its title from a radical Whig tract of 1709 to argue that by the Whigs' own principles of. ." v t e...

The Patriot Whigs, later the Patriot Party, were a group within the Whig Party in Great Britain from 1725 to 1803. The group was formed in opposition...

Country Party was the name employed in the Kingdom of England (and later in Great Britain) by political movements which campaigned in opposition to the...

The Rockingham Whigs (or Rockinghamites) in 18th-century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of...

Affairs of British North America and to The British North America Act, 1840 which established a new political entity, the Province of Canada. The Whig cabinet...

American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the...

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...

an organisation in Great Britain that was focused on advocating for parliamentary reform. It was founded by the Whig Party in 1792. The Society in England...

Whig and allied party leaders from 1801 to 1859. During the 19th century, the Whigs, Radicals and Peelites gradually evolved into the Liberal Party....

(1853–1857). This article covers the party in national politics. For state politics see Whig Party (United States). The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition...

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...

Clay helped form the Whig Party. The Democratic Party had a small yet decisive advantage over the Whigs until the 1850s when the Whigs fell apart over the...

A two-party system is a political party system in which two major political parties consistently dominate the political landscape. At any point in time...

(/ˈbæbɪŋtən məˈkɔːli/; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839...

Thomas Scott (1723–1816) was an English politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridport from 1780 to 1790. "Bridport | History of Parliament Online"...

slavery dominated the political landscape, and the Whigs, unable to agree on an approach to the issue, began to disintegrate. A few Whigs lingered, claiming...

1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1721 to 1742. He also served as First...

The Whig government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in November 1830 and ended in November 1834 consisted of two ministries:...

(Baron Cirencester). He was the leader of the Portland Whigs faction, which broke with the Whig leadership of Charles James Fox and joined with William...

frivolous party or a joke party is a political party which has been created for the purposes of entertainment or political satire. Such a party may or may...