Tom Wharton and the Whig Junto: party leadership in late Stuart England

• Autores: Geoffrey Holmes
• Localización: Parliamentary history, ISSN-e 1750-0206, Vol. 28, Nº. 1 (February), 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: British politics in the age of Holmes / Clyve Jones (ed. lit.)), págs. 100-114
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This previously unpublished lecture by Geoffrey Holmes looks at the parliamentary career of Thomas, 6th Baron Wharton, 1st earl and 1st marquess of Wharton, a leading member of the whig junto in the reigns of William III and Queen Anne. It examines his "unsavoury" character and how his reputation as a libertine and swordsman may have helped his role as a party leader. It also examines his historical reputation, partly through the works of Jonathan Swift, Richard Steele and Lord Macauly and attempts to restore his position as a much-maligned major figure in Augustan parliamentary and electoral politics.