Risultati di ricerca
3 giorni fa · 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 was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for 12 years, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ...
5 giorni fa · The future Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, began his political career as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1832 to 1845. More recently, the Labour Party held Newark (on substantially different boundaries to the present ones) from 1950 until 1979, when it was taken by the Conservatives ' Richard Alexander.
3 giorni fa · A leading Peelite was William Gladstone, who was a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer in most of these governments. The formal foundation of the Liberal Party is traditionally traced to 1859 when the remaining Peelites, Radicals and Whigs agreed to vote down the incumbent Conservative government.
4 giorni fa · Gladstone’s first administration had several notable achievements: the disestablishment and partial disendowment of the Irish church, accomplished in 1869 in face of the opposition of the House of Lords; the Irish Land Act of 1870, providing some safeguards to Irish tenant farmers; William Edward Forster’s Education Act of the same year ...
5 giorni fa · Gladstone’s Library, which was founded in the late 1800s by four-times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, has three Reading Rooms which hold 10,000s of books and collections items, 26 bedrooms and an on-site restaurant.
4 giorni fa · John Gladstone was the father of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and received more than 100,000 pounds in compensation for hundreds of slaves. A renowned 1823 slave...
3 giorni fa · Advertisement. The Arabs served in practically all units and corps including the ordinance, medical, engineering, and service corps in Palestine and North Africa and Europe. At the same time,...
