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William Ewart Gladstone

prime minister of United Kingdom
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Category: History & Society
Born:
December 29, 1809, Liverpool, England
Died:
May 19, 1898, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales (aged 88)
Title / Office:
prime minister (1892-1894), United Kingdom
prime minister (1886-1886), United Kingdom
prime minister (1880-1885), United Kingdom
prime minister (1868-1874), United Kingdom
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Tory Party
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William Ewart Gladstone (born December 29, 1809, Liverpool, England—died May 19, 1898, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales) 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 particularly distinguish himself. At Christ Church, Oxford, in 1831 he secured first classes in classics and mathematics. He originally intended to take orders in the Church of England, but his father dissuaded him. He mistrusted parliamentary reform; his speech against it ...(100 of 2555 words)

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