Whigs
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Leaders | Robert Walpole |
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | |
Founded | 1678 |
Ceased operations | June 6, 1859 |
Preceded by | Roundhead |
Colour | Orange |
Merg into | Liberal Party |
Founders | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 801017 |
About Whigs
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 merged into the Liberal Party with the Peelites and Radicals in the 1850s.