The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone Mr Gladstones Character And Career By Sir W Reid Mr Gladstons Ancestry And Early Years By A F Robbins Mr Gladstone And The Oxford Union Society By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone As A Scholar By A J Butler Mr Gladstone As A Tory By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone As A Theologian By Canon Maccoll Mr Gladstone And The Reform Of The Tariff By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone In Society By G W E Russell And Sir W Reid Mr Gladstone As A Peelite By F W Hirst

This book is a 3-volume record of life and work of one of Britain's greatest leaders of all times William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). Gladstone was a British statesman and Liberal politician who, in a career lasting over 60 years, served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four terms beginning in 1868 and ending in 1894. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, serving over 12 years. Gladstone's own political doctrine – which emphasized equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism – came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism. His popularity amongst the working-class earned him the sobriquet "The People's William". In 1868, Gladstone became Prime Minister for the first time. Many reforms were passed during his first ministry, including the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. After electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as leader of the Liberal Party. After the 1880 general election, Gladstone formed his second ministry (1880-1885), which saw the passage of the Third Reform Act as well as crises in Egypt and Ireland, where his government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers. Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed home rule for Ireland but was defeated in the House of Commons. The resulting split in the Liberal Party helped keep them out of office – with one short break – for 20 years. Gladstone formed his last government in 1892, at the age of 82. The Government of Ireland Bill 1893 passed through the Commons but was defeated in the House of Lords in 1893. Gladstone left office in March 1894, aged 84, as both the oldest person to serve as Prime Minister and the only Prime Minister to have served four terms.

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The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley Excerpt I am well aware that to try to write Mr. Gladstone's life at all-the life of a man who held an imposing place in many high national transactions, whose character and career may be regarded in such various lights, whose interests were so manifold, and whose years bridged so long a span of time-is a stroke of temerity. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: two hundred years ago. The crime of forgery was difficult to decide upon, as we were a groat commercial nation. The question put by Mr. Kelt, however, was easily answered in the negative. Mr. Andrews, au elector, then entered npon a long address on the subject of negro slavery, and required Mr. Gladstone's opinion npon the subject. Mr. Gladstone gave it unequivocally, that ho desired the emancipation of slaves upon such terms as would preserve them and the colonies from destruction. The slaves ought first to be fully prepared for emancipation.' A long discussion for and against the results of emancipation in St. Domingo and Antigua followed. Mr. Gladstone was now unfortunately placed. Being the third in order of the three candidates proposed, his address to the electors came last. Serjeant Wilde exhausted the patience of the people by his very lengthy speech, and the Tory candidate was condemned to follow amidst a scene of outrageous noise and uproar. The mass of people in front of the hustings had already stood for nearly seven hours, and showed a disinclination to be detained with another three hours' address, which, as a local chronicler naively puts it, ' from Mr. Gladstone's talents we were far from thinking not possible.' Serjeant Wilde's policy in occupying the attention of the electors for an inordinate length of time was almost universally condemned. Mr. Gladstone was but able to utter a few comments upon the prominent topic of slavery, when the hooting and hissing, drowned his voice, and he found it impossible to proceed. A show of hands being demanded, it was declared to be in favour of Mr. Handley and Serjeant Wilde. For Mr. Gladstone few hands wereheld up beyond those of his supporters on the hustings. A poll was accordingly demanded on his behalf. Since 1...