Liberal Unionist

British  

noun

1. a Liberal who opposed Gladstone's policy of Irish Home Rule in 1886 and after

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• Liberal Unionism
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Liberal Unionist

I have not mentioned the fact that I edited the official organ of the Liberal Unionist Party for about two years—a monthly, entitled The Liberal Unionist.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

Get myself up as a Liberal Unionist, with wig and eye-glass.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 by Various

As my work enlarged I found I wanted help in The Liberal Unionist, and secured an admirable helper in Mr. C. L. Graves.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

When the election of 1886 took place, I was asked by a friend and Somersetshire neighbour, Mr. Henry Hobhouse, who had become, like me, a Liberal Unionist, to act as his election agent.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe

When Gladstone and his party adopted it, he became a Liberal Unionist, and as such was elected in 1895 a member of the House of Commons by Dublin University.

From Historical Essays by Rhodes, James Ford