So, when Viscount Palmeston perceptively realized that Wellington's Cabinet was on the decline, he decisively threw his support behind Earl Grey. Even before his departure from the Tory Party, he did not forget to curry favor with the Anglican supporters, claiming that his reason for leaving the Tory Party was because he felt that the sacred status of the national religion was under threat.
Having talked about the two gentlemen of the Tory Party, it's now time to turn to the two radicals of the Whig Party.
Lord Russell came from the illustrious family of the Dukes of Bedford, and his character was very much in the same vein as his forebears.
Even the maids in the house of His Lordship would privately mock, "The Russell family are all very peculiar people."
Like other members of his family and many of the nobility in Britain, arrogance and pretentiousness were synonymous with Russell.
