| LC control no. | n 50076368 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Whig Party (Great Britain) |
| See also | Successor: Liberal Party (Great Britain) |
| Beginning date | 1678 |
| Ending date | 1859 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England Scotland |
| Field of activity | Liberalism Conservatism |
| Found in | Wikipedia, viewed 27 Jan. 2016 (Whigs, British political party; founded in 1678; originally a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom; dissolved 6 June 1859; transition to Liberal Party arose from a coalition of Whigs, free trade Tory followers of Robert Peel, and free trade Radicals, first created, tenuously under the Peelite Earl of Aberdeen in 1852, and put together more permanently under the former Canningite Tory Lord Palmerston in 1859) |
| Associated language | eng |
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