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

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 Bridle, Augustus

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

He became the successful helmsman in London of the central organization of the Liberal Unionist party.

From A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Anderton, Thomas

The Women's Liberal Unionist Association founded in 1888 had for its principal object the defence of the legislative union between England and Ireland.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted

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