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The Whig Revival, 1808–1830

Part of the Studies in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510623

ISBN: 978-1-349-51360-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 27, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 1 –9

[In Britain, the early decades of the nineteenth century saw the qualified development of a two-party representative system different in key respects from earlier periods of party rivalry. Few observers in 1800 would have predicted the revival of the Foxite Whigs or the post-1832 political...
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Chapter 2Party Structure and the Whigs in British Politics

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 10 –34

[After the Foxite-dominated Ministry of All the Talents collapsed in 1807, the main body of the Whigs spent over two decades out of office, and the brief tenure of the Talents itself marked only a short caesura in the party’s exclusion from power since the early 1780s. William Pitt the Younger...
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Chapter 3Elections, the Press and Whig Tactics in Opposition: 1812–17

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 35 –65

[The Whigs’ fortunes stood at a low tide in 1812 as the party’s leaders responded with uncertainty to their extended political isolation. Francis Jeffrey, editor of the Edinburgh Review., had urged them in 1810 to conciliate and lead what he called the ‘popular party’, insisting that Tike...
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Chapter 41818 and the Westmorland Election

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 66 –90

[Brougham had confidently predicted in 1814 that ‘the gag is gone which used to stop our mouths as often as any reform was mentioned — revolution first, and then invasion’, and he believed that with peace ‘the game is in the hands of the Opposition’.1 Although he correctly foresaw the discontent...
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Chapter 5Social Tension and Party Politics in 1819

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 91 –110

[The year 1819 marked an important point in the halting process by which the Whigs recovered their vitality. The political scene that year also highlighted the symbiotic relationship between the parliamentary contest at Westminster and public opinion in the country. With support from a better...
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Chapter 6Public Opinion and the Limits of Opposition: 1820–26

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 111 –136

[George III’s death on 29 January 1820 began a year of political upheaval that tested Liverpool’s government before finally demonstrating the limits of opposition. The election required within six months of a sovereign’s demise gave the Whigs a welcome opportunity to build on their gains in 1818....
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Chapter 7A Revolution in Parties: 1827–30

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 137 –175

[Opposition parties in Britain rarely drive governments from office, but rather seize upon an administration’s own failure to hold power. The Whigs realized in the late 1820s that they could gain office only after Liverpool’s government and the Tory phalanx that sustained it had collapsed. The...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Hay, William Anthony

Pages: 176 –184

[Although the new reform ministry in 1830 included Canningites and a single ultra Tory, the Duke of Richmond, a relative of Lord Holland, Grey presided over a Whig-dominated coalition government. As a coalition, it invites comparison with the Talents ministry of 1806–7 while raising questions...

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