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

Liberal Unionist candidates received the support of the Conservative party. p.

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

The Convention was suddenly stampeded for Laurier, a result which Mr. Dafoe never expected but against which he had strongly urged, the Liberal Unionist leaders.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle

Lord Hartington's refusal to follow his leader in this course inevitably made him the chief of the new Liberal Unionist party, composed of a large and influential section of the old Liberals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

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 John St. Loe Strachey

Some of these were due to Liberal Unionist influence.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease