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Há 3 dias · 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 ...
Há 4 dias · Reading Gladstone. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, ISBN: 9780230007659; 352pp.; Price: £55.00. The line of modern British Prime Ministers is remarkable for the numerous authors included in its number. Lord Grey wrote a volume on the causes of the French Revolution. Disraeli produced a shelf of novels.
Há 4 dias · William Ewart Gladstone – Chancellor of the Exchequer Edward Cardwell – Chief Secretary for Ireland Thomas Milner Gibson – President of the Board of Trade and of the Poor Law Board
Há 4 dias · Though Shannon holds strong views on many aspects of Gladstone's career - views which the Victorian statesman might have regarded as less than flattering - this biography is a work of magisterial scholarship, far above the present-day party squabbles.
Há 5 dias · It is clear, however, that earnest belief in the national (that is, not factional, or – to Tory eyes – classless) institutions of the crown and the established church is as evident in the Tory and Regius Professor William Stubbs, whom Gladstone (no doubt with Mary's advice) appointed Bishop of Chester in 1884, as in the Conservative working men and women described in Jörg Neuheiser's ...
Há 2 dias · He was succeeded as Liberal leader by former Peelite William Gladstone, and was thus the last true Whig to serve as prime minister. Generally taken as the model for Anthony Trollope's Mr. Mildmay, aspects of his character may also have suggested those of Plantagenet Palliser.
Há 5 dias · Best memoirs and biographies to read in 2024. Dive into some of the most compelling life stories – from David Bowie to Keir Starmer. When Franz Kafka's diaries were first published soon after ...
