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Draft:Third Party (British political faction)


Third Party
LeaderWilliam Windham
FoundedFebruary 1793
DissolvedJanuary 1794
Preceded byFoxites
Merged intoPortlandites
Headquarters106 Pall Mall, London
IdeologyConservatism
Anti-Jacobinism
Interventionism
Anti-radicalism
Political positionRight-wing[1]
House of Commons (1793)
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The Third Party (or the Alarmists) was a late 18th-century British political faction formed by politicians who had seceded from the Foxite Whig faction of Charles James Fox in the aftermath of the Execution of Louis XVI and Fox's perceived sympathies for the French Revolution. The faction, led by conservative Whig William Windham, ceased to engage in systematic opposition to the Pitt government while remaining independent of it and supporting its war policy.

  1. ^ James J. Sack, From Jacobite to Conservative: Reaction and orthodoxy in Britain, c. 1760-1832 (Cambridge, 1993), p. 94.

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