Meanings of zealous whig in English

He was a zealous whig and contributed much to kindle the patriotic fire which blazed forth among these people in the revolutionary struggle.

Parson Allen, who, you may have heard, was such a zealous whig, was with the Berkshire men, and he wanted to fight right off.

Vernon was a zealous Whig, and not personally unacceptable to the chiefs of his party.

He was, as might have been expected from his near connection with the martyr of the Protestant faith, a zealous Whig.

The epilogue, which was written by Garth, a zealous Whig, was severely and not unreasonably censured as ignoble and out of place.

There had been great complaint that the manufacturers, especially in Lowell, who were in general zealous Whig partisans, used an undue influence over their workmen.