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William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (/ ˈ ɡ l æ d s t ən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in ...
May 15, 2024 · William Ewart Gladstone was a statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94). Gladstone was of purely Scottish descent. His father, John, made himself a merchant prince and was a member of Parliament (1818–27). Gladstone was sent to Eton, where he did not.
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William Ewart Gladstone Liberal 1868 to 1874, 1880 to 1885, 1886 to 1886, 1892 to 1894 ... Biography Gladstone was elected Tory MP for Newark in December 1832, aged 23, with ultra-conservative views.
May 29, 2018 · Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98). Statesman and author. Gladstone was one of the longest serving of British politicians and one of the most controversial. He was in office every decade from the 1830s to the 1890s, starting as a Tory, ending as a Liberal -radical prime minister. He was born in Liverpool on 29 December 1809, the son of Anne ...
Morley's authorised biography of Gladstone (1809–1898) was published in 1903, and is a landmark of political biography. Four times Liberal Prime Minister between 1868 and 1894, Gladstone had left an enormous archive of letters, papers and diaries, which Morley (1838–1923), himself a noted Liberal politician and writer, spent five years distilling into three volumes.
- John Morley
- 1903
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 at Rodney Street, Liverpool. He was the fourth son and fifth child of a family of six born to Sir John Gladstone and his wife Anne Mackenzie Robertson. Sir John Gladstone made his fortune in trade especially with America and the West Indies: it was there that he owned sugar plantations.
William Ewart Gladstone was born in Liverpool in 1809. During his upbringing, he developed a deep Christianity that would define his politics. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He achieved double firsts in Literae Humaniores and Mathematics. Initially, Gladstone was a Tory.
