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  2. 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.

  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. Whigs (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    All of the Whig leaders attacked this on traditional Whig anti-French and protectionist grounds. Fox claimed that France was England's natural enemy and that it was only at Britain's expense that she could grow. Edmund Burke, Richard Sheridan, William Windham and Charles Grey all spoke out against the trade agreement on the same grounds. [32]

  5. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the principal minister of the crown of His Majesty's Government, and the head of the British Cabinet.. There is no specific date for when the office of prime minister first appeared, as the role was not created but rather evolved over time through a merger of duties. [1]

  6. 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.

  7. Democrats Could Learn Something From the Rise of the Whigs - AOL

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    The British Whigs generally aimed to limit the powers of the monarch, and they led the opposition to King George III during the American Revolution. ... Party leaders and Democratic voters will ...

  8. Category:Whig (British political party) politicians - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Whig (British political party) politicians" ... List of United Kingdom Whig and allied party leaders, 1801–1859; M. Henry Maxwell (1669–1730)

  9. Robert Walpole - Wikipedia

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    Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain [a] from 1721 to 1742.