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… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, 'An Election Entertainment, from the series known as 'The Humours … that mixed business with pleasure. Thus a group portrait of the ‘Junto’ (see illustration above), the leaders of the Whig party, depicts them shortly before the disastrous election of 1710 sitting around a table looking at antique medals … in Karen Harvey (ed.), The Kiss in History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005). William Speck, Tory and Whig: The Struggle in the Constituencies 1701-15 (London: Macmillan, 1970). History of Parliament online biographies and …
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