The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England,Scotland,Ireland,Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s,the Whigs contested power with their rivals,the Tories. The Whigs became the Liberal Party when it merged with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s. Many Whigs left the Liberal Party in 1886 over the issue of Irish Home Rule to form the Liberal Unionist Party,which merged into the Conservative Party in 1912.
William Pitt was a British statesman,the youngest and last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800,and then first prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801. He left office in March 1801,but served as prime minister again from 1804 until his death in 1806. He was also Chancellor of the Exchequer for all of his time as prime minister. He is known as "Pitt the Younger" to distinguish him from his father,William Pitt the Elder,who had also previously served as prime minister.
William Wyndham Grenville,1st Baron Grenville,was a British Pittite Tory politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1806 to 1807,but was a supporter of the Whigs for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. As prime minister,his most significant achievement was the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. However,his government failed to either make peace with France or to accomplish Catholic emancipation and it was dismissed in the same year.
The Ministry of All the Talents was a national unity government in the United Kingdom formed by William Grenville,1st Baron Grenville,on his appointment as Prime Minister on 11 February 1806,following the death of William Pitt the Younger.
George John Spencer,2nd Earl Spencer,,styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783,was a British Whig politician. He served as Home Secretary from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents. He was also the father of the Venerable Father Ignatius of St Paul,a Roman Catholic convert to the priesthood.
The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition,more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition,is the person who leads the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom. The position is seen as the shadow head of government of the United Kingdom and thus the shadow prime minister of the United Kingdom.
George Ponsonby,was a British lawyer and Whig politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1806 to 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.
William Brabazon Ponsonby,1st Baron Ponsonby,was a leading Irish Whig politician,being a member of the Irish House of Commons,and,after 1800,of the United Kingdom parliament. Ponsonby was the son of the Hon. John Ponsonby,the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Lady Elizabeth Cavendish,daughter of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire. He was invested as a Privy Counsellor of Ireland in 1784. He served as Joint Postmaster-General of Ireland (1784–1789).
The 1820 United Kingdom general election was triggered by the death of King George III and produced the first parliament of the reign of his successor,King George IV. It was held shortly after the Radical War in Scotland and the Cato Street Conspiracy. In this atmosphere,the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool were able to win a substantial majority over the Whigs.
The 1818 United Kingdom general election saw the Whigs gain a few seats,but the Tories under the Earl of Liverpool retained a majority of around 90 seats. The Whigs were divided over their response to growing social unrest and the introduction of the Corn Laws.
The 1802 United Kingdom general election was the election to the House of Commons of the second Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was the first to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. The first Parliament had been composed of members of the former Parliaments of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
The 1806 United Kingdom general election was the election of members to the 3rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. This was the second general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
The 1807 United Kingdom general election was the third general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
The 1812 United Kingdom general election was the fourth general election to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
Buckinghamshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.
In the first Parliament to be held after the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801,the first House of Commons of the United Kingdom was composed of all 558 members of the former Parliament of Great Britain and 100 of the members of the House of Commons of Ireland.
The 1796 British general election returned members to serve in the 18th and last House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain. They were summoned before the Union of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801. The members in office in Great Britain at the end of 1800 continued to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom (1801–02).
Foxite was a late 18th-century British political label for Whig followers of Charles James Fox.
Dudley Long North was an English Whig politician,member of Parliament. He was of the family of British prime minister Lord North,and brother-in-law of Charles Anderson-Pelham,1st Earl of Yarborough of Appuldurcombe House.
