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4 giorni fa · Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, MP (1854–1930), 1st governor-general of South Africa (1910–1914); he married Dorothy Paget in 1901. Gladstone's eldest son William (known as "Willy" to distinguish him from his father), and youngest, Herbert, both became Members of Parliament.
1 giorno fa · Heroic Minister, 1865-1898, (review no. 89) At the Gladstone Centenary Conference, held at Chester in the summer of 1998, one speaker pointed out that at that point in time there were ten or eleven new biographies of 'WEG' under contract. If such a high number of new works is indicative of Gladstone's enduring fascination and appeal, the length ...
15 mag 2024 · William Ewart Gladstone 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.
1 giorno fa · 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.
18 mag 2024 · It is officially announced that King Edward has raised Mr. Herbert John Gladstone to the Peerage, and conferred on him a Viscountcy. ...
5 giorni fa · 1854 - Herbert John Gladstone, politico britannico († 1930) 1855 - Jean Jules Jusserand, storico e diplomatico francese († 1932) 1855 - Antonino Liberi, architetto e ingegnere italiano († 1933) 1856 - Sofija Rusova, pedagoga, scrittrice e attivista ucraina († 1940) 1857 - Max Klinger, incisore e scultore tedesco († 1920)
25 mag 2024 · Date accessed: 25 May, 2024. After two substantial volumes of biography, and numerous shorter and related studies, Richard Shannon has again returned to the life of William Ewart Gladstone. This new work is not apparently intended as a simple distillation of his Gladstone: Peel’s Inheritor (1982) and Gladstone: Heroic Minister (1999).
