By D. Wilkinson
ISBN-10: 0230595952
ISBN-13: 9780230595958
ISBN-10: 1349427764
ISBN-13: 9781349427765
ISBN-10: 5520039410
ISBN-13: 9785520039419
The 3rd Duke of Portland served two times as major Minster and had a protracted and exotic political profession from 1760s to the 1780s. This research info how he used to be remodeled from a pillar of the grand Whiggery (he used to be the brother-in-law of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) into the figurehead for would-be Tories. The e-book additionally examines how he performed a major public function in lots of of the political crises of his period (including the French Revolution and the Union) in addition to a hidden position in British background (he used to be keen on the key carrier and political corruption).
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25 The business of organising political opposition was often tedious and frequently frustrating. Many of the letters between Rockingham and Portland from this period concern the arrangement of meetings and the summoning of party members for particular debates and divisions in parliament. The maintenance of regular attendance was always a problem, and Beaumont Hotham admitted that `no business will keep an opposition together longer than a single day. People will not attend repeatedly'. Even when attendance was temporarily boosted by an important debate, by the time the party leaders had called extra MPs to town, in the hope of pushing the ministry hard at the next division, an equal or greater number would usually have drifted away.
This made dealing with them distasteful and risky. If political capital could be made out of government oppression, then Portland might stand forward in the name of liberty and freedom of the press. 32 The single most important issue that divided radicals from most aristocratic Whigs was parliamentary reform. Portland opposed reform, even in its moderate guise of increasing the number of county MPs: If this measure should be adopted, combinations would be likely to take place among the most opulent to the total exclusion of many 32 The Duke of Portland valuable and useful gentlemen of small fortunes, who would not venture to oppose the united powers of such a confederacy.
This sort of criticism was highly unusual, however. It was almost taken for granted that leadership from the Lords was different in kind and method. The party did not lack overall debating ability, particularly in the Commons. There the leading figure was Charles James Fox, who had rapidly risen to prominence after defecting from the North ministry in 1774. Fox and his circle of friends, which also included older hands like Burke, provided the party with a wealth of debating talent. To a certain degree the rise of the Foxite element within the Whig opposition changed the nature of the Rockingham party.
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