ABSTRACT
From the ideological ferment engendered by the French Revolution comes a coalition of Pittites and old Whigs concerned above all to defend property and the old order against rash and speculative political notions like reform and religious toleration. The name Tory, stuck in the throats of the new coalition and was adopted diffidently only by second-generation Pittites during the government of Lord Liverpool after 1812. The new Conservatism, as yet unrecognised in name and but dimly appreciated in concept, represented a fusion of party cohesion and careful administrative expertise, the legacy particularly of second-generation Pittites like Hawkesbury, Spencer Perceval, Robert Stewart George Canning, William Huskisson and Robert Peel, most of whom entered politics in the 1790s and 1800s. A place was found for Sidmouth and the only notable absentees were Portland and rising young Pittites like Hawkesbury, Castlereagh, Canning and Perceval.
