Whig Collection

William Pitt (1708-1778). British politician
PITT, William (London 1708-Hayes, 1778), first Earl of Chatham, called Pitt the Elder or Prime Pitt. Also konwn as The Great Commoner. British politician. He joined the ranks of Commons Whig in 1735

Hogarth Election / 1Of4(C)
THE ELECTION An election entertainment: a Whig banquet, with Tories demonstrating outside plate 1 of 4 Date: 1755

Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre
Caricature portrait of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB (1797-1879). Shaw-Lefevre was a British barrister, Whig politician, and civil servant

Sir Robert Walpole / Mini
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 1st Earl of Orford English statesman - Whig MP in the House of Commons

General James Irvin
Portrait of General James Irvin. Whig candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania

Brookes and Whites Clubs, London 1796
Wealthy gentlemen patronise the exclusive Brookes (Whig) and White s(Tory) Clubs, at Pall Mall, London. Brookes is shown on the right

Robert Walpole / Robinson
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 1st Earl of Orford English statesman - Whig MP

Political cartoon, What will the wigs do next?

Edmund Burke and the Iron Duke
Two Baxter portrait prints of the following men. Edmund Burke, as a boy, who became a British and Irish statesman, economist and philosopher

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), Scottish advocate and independent Whig politician

Lord Clarendon, George William Frederick Villiers
George William Frederick Villiers, the 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870), leading English Whig politician, who served as Lord Privy Seal

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792 - 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1846 to 1852

Cartoon, A Friend at Court (John Bright)
Cartoon, A Friend at Court -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Bright, a Quaker (hence the friend pun), who had recently obtained a Cabinet position (President of the Board of Trade)

Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal (John Bright)
Cartoon, A Dress Rehearsal -- a satirical comment on the radical Liberal MP John Brights expectation that he might obtain a Cabinet position in the next Liberal government

Cartoon, The Rival Black Dolls (India Bill)
Cartoon, The Rival Black Dolls, showing the former Liberal Prime Minister, Palmerston (left), and the current Conservative MP Benjamin Disraeli (right) in Lord Derbys government

Cartoon, Palmerston Selling Off -- a satirical comment on the defeat of Palmerstons Whig government on 19 February 1858, when the Conservatives came into power

Cartoon, An Old Hand (Palmerston and Russell)
Cartoon, An Old Hand -- Lord Palmerston on horseback and Lord John Russell just behind him, on a pony, an analogy for their respective positions in the new government

Cartoon, Lord Palmerstons Unpopular Exhibition -- a satirical comment on the Foreign Secretarys activities and interests, including a Spanish Marriage, the Confiscation of Cracow

Cartoon, Hercules Tearing Theseus from the Rock to which he had grown -- a satirical comment on Sir Robert Peels intention to oust the Whig government under Lord Melbourne

Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Anglo-Irish politician and philosopher, Whig MP from 1766 to 1794. Portrait with associated locations -- Westminster Hall set up for the trial of Warren Hastings (top)

Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), English politician. early 19th century

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 4th Earl of Orford, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. circa 1750s

William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (17901-1858), British peer, courtier, nobleman, and Whig politician. early 19th century

Cartoon comment on Prime Minister Charles Grey
Cartoon, Politics - a comment on the Whig Prime Minister Charles Grey. circa 1833

Sir James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, Whig politician
Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. early 19th century

Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich
Henry Bathurst, English churchman, a prominent Whig and Bishop of Norwich (1744-1837). circa 1810

Charles James Fox speaking out in Parliament against slavery
Charles James Fox (1749-1806), British Whig Statesman, MP and ardent anti-slavery campaigner, shown here speaking out in Parliament against the slave trade

Lord John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840), British Whig statesman and colonial administrator. He served as Ambassador to Russia (1835-1837). Date: circa 1832

Sir Robert Walpole - House of Commons
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 1st Earl of Orford English statesman - Whig MP in the House of Commons Date: 1676 - 1745

The Election by William Hogarth
1. Humours of an election, entertainment Date: AFTER 1752

Sacheverell Cards
Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon denouncing the Whig government

Attack on Whig mug-house
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (circa 17141794) - English lawyer, judge and Whig politician - first to hold the title of Earl Camden. Date: circa 1780

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). British statesman of the Whig group. Engraving. Portrait. Colored

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British politician
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), British Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister. Date: circa 1810s

President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Engraving. Colored
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). 16th President of the United States. Engraving in Universal History, 1885. Colored

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841). Engraving. Colored
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841). 9th President of the United States. Engraving in The Universal History, 1892. Colored

John Creswell (1828-1891). Engraving. Colored
John Creswell (1828-1891). American politician. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1816-1895). Was an influential American, lawyer, and justice from Massachusetts. He was appointed U.S. Attorney General in 1869 by President Ulysses S. Grant

Edmund Burke (1729-1797). Colored engraving
Edmund Burke (1729-1797). Irish writer and politician. Engraving in The American Revolution. Colored

Caricature of W E Gladstone and the ghost of Palmerston, his predecessor as Liberal Party leader. Palmerston wonders at Gladstone being in the House of Commons on Derby Day

Thomas Pilkington
SIR THOMAS PILKINGTON Lord Mayor of London whose staunch whig (anti-royal) sympathies got him into trouble with the Stuarts, but he survived.. Date: ? - 1691

4th Duke of Bedford
JOHN RUSSELL, 4TH DUKE OF BEDFORD Statesman; Whig leader Date: 1710 - 1771

Events / Britain / Cartoons
Whig Politicians. Date: 1806

Cartoon, True Reform of Parliament, ie Patriots lighting a Revolutionary Bonfire in New Palace Yard, by James Gillray. Showing Sir Francis Burdett at the centre

Cartoon, Broad Bottom Drones storming the Hive, Wasps, Hornets & Bumble Bees joining in the Attack, by James Gillray. Showing leading politicians (both those in power and those in opposition)

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Cartoon, Pacific Overtures, or, a Flight from St Clouds over the Water to Charley, a new Dramatic Piece now Rehearsing, by James Gillray

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