Gladstone, William Ewart
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Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98), British statesman. Brought up as an Evangelical, he became a
High Churchman. In 1854 he supported G. A.
Denison, who was prosecuted for teaching the
Real Presence. In 1867 he became leader of the Liberal Party. He fought the next general election on the issue of the disestablishment of the Church of
Ireland, which he carried through as Prime Minister in 1869. In 1874 he opposed Abp. A. C.
Tait's Public Worship Bill in the interests of the liberty of the C of E, and in the same year he published several bitter attacks on the RC Church, especially on the decrees of the First
Vatican Council. He was responsible for the foundation of many sees in the growing British Empire. He defended the doctrine of
conditional immortality in
Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler (1896).
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Mr. Gladstone: a new picture takes shape.(books on William Ewart Gladstone)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1992; ; 700+ words
; Agatha Ramm, William Ewart Gladstone. (U Wales P, 1989), ix + 129...sterling]. H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1809-1874. (Oxford UP, 1989...H.G.C. Matthew, ed., The Gladstone Diaries With Cabinet Minutes and...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Gladstone's ghost.(comparing Tony Blair to 19th-centry prime minister William Ewart Gladstone)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/29/1999; 700+ words
; ...TONY BLAIR the reincarnation of William Ewart Gladstone, that most celebrated of 19th...repeatedly invoked the ghost of Gladstone, "one of my political heroes...certainly intriguing. Like Gladstone, Mr Blair favours a highly...
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"This is very good port they have given me," remarked William Ewart Gladstone, visiting the home of the young Bertrand Russell, "but why have they given it me in a claret glass?".(The Week)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/29/2008; 700+ words
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is very good port they have given me," remarked William Ewart Gladstone, visiting the home of the young Bertrand Russell, "but why have they given it me in a claret glass? These high civilizational...
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Gladstone: the Making of a Christian Politician: The Personal Religious Life and Development of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1832.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; When John Morley's Life of Gladstone was published by Macmillan in three...has largely retained. Memories of Gladstone in the Edwardian era (1901-1910...agnostic, while he fully understood Gladstone's political and public life and...
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Of 'interior matters': Gladstone's diary, Disraeli's letters and recent biographical studies.(books on William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...sterling]. David W. Bebbington William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian...paper. Peter J. Jagger, Gladstone, The Making of a Christian...Religious Life and Development of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809-1832 (Pickwick Publications...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Gladstone in his own words and doodles; What would that ultimate Victorian William Gladstone have thought of his library going electronic? Peter Elson reports on how the greatest Liverpudlian is being beamed into the 21st century.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/9/2005; 700+ words
; ...Wales border with Chester. William Ewart Gladstone, the great Liverpool-born...purpose-built libraries, Gladstone has been the only British prime...s Library is the official Gladstone Memorial and was paid for by...
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Opening a new hi-tech chapter in Gladstone's N. Wales library; WHAT would that ultimate Victorian William Gladstone thought of his North Wales library going electronic Peter Elson reports on how a major new project aims to beam the former prime minister into the 21st century.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/17/2005; 700+ words
; ...village of Hawarden, Flintshire. William Ewart Gladstone, the great Liverpool-born...purpose-built libraries, Gladstone has been the only British prime...s Library is the official Gladstone Memorial and was paid for by...
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William Gladstone - the man who out-Budgeted Brown ; BUDGET 2007
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/22/2007; ; 445 words
; William Ewart Gladstone - the Victorian politician whose name...Brown's mind. He was thinking of Gladstone's record as the 19th-cen-tury...then a 12th, and that was when Mr Gladstone combined the position of chancellor...
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William Gladstone.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/2/2009; 471 words
; THIS year is the 200th anniversary of William Ewart Gladstone's birth in 1809. He was a Liberal Prime Minister...which inflated the cost of books and newspapers. William Gladstone died on May 19, 1898, at Hawarden Castle, aged...
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Fasque worker; antiques CHRISTOPHER PROUDLOVE ON A pounds 1 M CONTENTS SALE OF THE GLADSTONE FAMILY HOME.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...the stately home of Sir John Gladstone, father of one of the most famous Victorian prime ministers, William Ewart Gladstone, whose descendants still live...books assembled by the young William Ewart Gladstone, while he was at Oxford University...
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William Ewart Gladstone
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Ewart Gladstone The English statesman William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) led the Liberal party and served as prime minister four times. His strong religious sense was an integral part of his political and social policies. William...
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Gladstone, William Ewart
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–98). Statesman and author. Gladstone was in office every decade from the...29 December 1809, the son of John Gladstone, a merchant from Scotland, Gladstone...
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Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) The great Victorian...x2014; by far the most important." Gladstone came to that belief rather late in...slate-writing sitting with the medium William Eglinton. After the s é ance...
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Gladstone
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Gladstone name of William Ewart Gladstone (1808–98), Eng. statesman, used attrib. or ellipt. to designate (i) French wine of which the importation was increased as a result of his reduction of customs duty, (ii) a kind of portmanteau. XIX.
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Bulgarian Horrors
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...coined by british politician gladstone to describe the atrocities perpetrated...of which was an indictment by William Ewart Gladstone of Turkish rule in his pamphlet...with little effect. Although Gladstone was successful in rallying public...
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