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Patriot Whigs. 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 to the government of Robert Walpole in the House of Commons in 1725, when William Pulteney (later 1st Earl of Bath) and seventeen other Whigs joined with the Tory Party in attacks ...
The political parties contained in this module are split into alphabetised lists based on the first character of the name (for example, "Labour Party (UK)" would be under /L ). The /1 subpage is for any party that does not start with the western letters A-Z (including numbers and accented characters). Within each data submodule are two local ...
Die Bezeichnung Whig wurde ursprünglich beleidigend von den politischen Gegnern gebraucht und bedeutet ‚Viehtreiber‘ (Whiggamore). Erstmals wurde der Begriff für eine Parlamentsgruppe während der Krise um den Popish Plot und die Exclusion Bill in den Jahren 1679–1681 verwendet. Diese versuchte erfolglos, mit einer großen ...
There seems to be no good reason to be squeamish about using the term "party" to refer to either of the two political organizations that operated under that name in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The term "Tory Party" was frequently used in the contemporary political discourse, and referred to a group of people sharing common political ...
1834–1842. Lord John Russell. 1846–1852. The Earl of Aberdeen. 1852–1855. The Viscount Palmerston. 1852–1855. When the United Kingdom came into existence, on 1 January 1801, the era of disciplined mass parties had not yet begun. Although individuals and families regarded themselves as belonging to a Whig or Tory tradition, actual ...
While in power, Whigs frequently referred to all opponents as "Jacobites" or dupes of Jacobites. Whiggism originally referred to the Whigs of the British Isles, but the name of "Old Whigs" was largely adopted by the American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies. Following independence, American Whiggism became known as republicanism.
