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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 ...
Whigs (British political party), one of two political parties in England, Great Britain, Ireland, and later the United Kingdom, from the 17th to 19th centuries. Whiggism, the political philosophy of the British Whig party. Radical Whigs, a faction of British Whigs associated with the American Revolution. Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party, a Whig ...
The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century. [13] Alongside the slightly larger Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States between the late 1830s and the early 1850s as part of the Second Party System. [14] Four presidents ( William Henry Harrison, John Tyler ...
Foxite was a late 18th-century British political label for Whig followers of Charles James Fox . Fox was the generally acknowledged leader of a faction of the Whigs from 1784 to his death in 1806. The group had developed from successive earlier factions, known as the "Old Corps Whigs" (led by the Duke of Newcastle in the 1750s and early 1760s ...
Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham. Lewis Watson, 2nd Baron Sondes. Clement Wearg. Goodwin Wharton. Thomas Morgan (of Dderw) Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) John White (1699–1769) Hugh Williams (of Chester) Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington.
After the Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689, Whiggism dominated English and British politics until about 1760, after which the Whigs splintered into different factions. After 1760, the Whigs still included about half of the leading families in England and Scotland, as well as most merchants, dissenters, and the middle classes .
Removed the following line from the description of the Whig Party: (now the Liberal Democrats) . Liberal Democrats have nothing to do with the Whig Party. I think the term "whig" actually originates in the English Civil War period of the 1640s-50s, when it was used to refer to a radical faction of the Scottish Covenanters who called themselves the "Kirk party".
