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William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister, c1890. Artist: Elliott & Fry
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William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister, (1900). William Gladstone (1809-1898) was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford from where in 1832 he embarked on his political career. He became Prime Minister in 1868, and then a further two times in 1880 and 1886. Whilst in power Gladstone bought in major reforms to Ireland and established a system of national education in England. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and Company, London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, 1900.