Popular Culture
The British whig march for piano was written by Oscar Telgmann in Kingston, Ontario circa 1900.
The colours of the Whig party were particularly associated with Charles James Fox. Poet Robert Burns in "Here's a Health to them that's awa'" wrote:
It's guid to support Caledonia's cause And bide by the Buff and the Blue.Buff is a yellow-brown colour, named after buff leather.
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