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William Ewart Gladstone
British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 December 1809, 1809, 29 December 1809
- Died
- 19 May 1898, 1898, 19 May 1898
- Place of birth
- Liverpool, 62 Rodney Street, Liverpool
- Place of death
- Hawarden Castle
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Gladstone
- Mother
- Anne MacKenzie Robertson
- Spouse
- Catherine Gladstone
- Child
- William Henry Gladstone, Mary Gladstone, Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, Helen Gladstone, Agnes Gladstone, Stephen Edward Gladstone, Catherine Jessy Gladstone
- Sibling
- John Gladstone
- Field of work
- politics
- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, statistician, writer, head of government
- Position held
- Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, President of the Board of Trade, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- candidacy in election
- 1880 United Kingdom general election, 1886 United Kingdom general election, 1874 United Kingdom general election, 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1835 United Kingdom general election, 1837 United Kingdom general election, 1841 United Kingdom general election, 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1892 United Kingdom general election, 1847 United Kingdom general election, 1852 United Kingdom general election
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- depicted by
- Dinner at Haddo House, 1884, The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, DCL, PC, (1809-1898), Statue of William Ewart Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98), Prime Minister
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Dictionary of National Biography, first supplement, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Library of the World's Best Literature, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- educated at
- Christ Church, Eton College
- employer
- University of Edinburgh
- honorific prefix
- The Right Honourable
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, American Antiquarian Society, Serbian Learned Society, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Accademia della Crusca
- member of political party
- Conservative Party, Tories, Liberal Party
- name in native language
- William Ewart Gladstone
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- pseudonym
- Scrutator
- topic's main category
- Category:William Ewart Gladstone
- work location
- London
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age
- The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance
- Female suffrage. A letter from the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. to Samuel Smith, M.P.
- Art and Industry
- The Channel Tunnel
- On the motion of Sir George Strickland; for the abolition of the negro apprenticeship
- The Sclavonic Provinces of the Ottoman Empire
- Two letters to the Earl of Aberdeen on the state prosecutions of the Neapolitan government
- The Best Hundred Books
- Disease germs, their real nature an original investigation
- The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone On cottage gardens and fruit culture;
- Dedfrydau Llys y Pab yn eu heffaith ar deyrngarwch gwladol : ymresymiad gwleidyddol
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