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  2. Whigs (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    In 1836, a private gentleman's Club was constructed in Pall Mall, Piccadilly as a consequence of the successful Reform Act 1832. The Reform Club was founded by Edward Ellice Sr., MP for Coventry and Whig Whip, whose riches came from the Hudson's Bay Company but whose zeal was chiefly devoted to securing the passage of the Reform Act 1832.

  3. List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders, 1801 ...

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    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 political allegiance tended to be to family connections and to factions grouped behind a prominent political leader.

  4. Leaders of the British Whig Party - Wikipedia

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    Also, Cook & Stevenson, British Historical Facts 1760–1830 have no section for party leaders in either House of Parliament. The section on 'Overall Leaders' gives details of those who were either the Prime Minister or a former Prime Minister who was still in Parliament and leading the Whig Party in the House in which he sat.

  5. Charles James Fox - Wikipedia

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    Canting arms of Fox, Baron Holland: Ermine, on a chevron azure three fox's heads and necks erased or on a canton of the second a fleur-de-lys of the third. Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a British Whig politician and statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

  6. Whig Party (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    The Whig Party was registered with the Electoral Commission on 15 September 2014. The Electoral Commission lists Waleed Ghani as its Leader and Nominating Officer and Felicity Anscomb as its treasurer. [2] Ghani founded the party with the intention of filling a vacuum he saw in British politics.

  7. List of ideological symbols - Wikipedia

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    Sun cross – British Movement; Sunflower – Scottish Green Party; Torch – former logo of the Labour Party (1920s to 1983) and the Conservative Party (1980s to 2006). [15] Union Flag – used in the logos of the Ulster Unionist Party, Democratic Unionist Party, British National Party, Conservative Party (traditional), amongst others

  8. Wikipedia : WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom/Index ...

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    The use of Tory and Whig up to 1832 and Conservative and Liberal from 1832, is a convention. It disguises a much more complex picture. Some politicians used the new terms in the 1830s but many did not for another generation.

  9. Category:Whigs (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    Whig (British political party) politicians (3 C, 46 P) Pages in category "Whigs (British political party)" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.