William Ewart Gladstone facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office 3 December 1868 – 17 February 1874
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	Benjamin Disraeli
Succeeded by	Benjamin Disraeli
In office 23 April 1880 – 9 June 1885
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Earl of Beaconsfield
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
In office 1 February 1886 – 20 July 1886
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
In office 15 August 1892 – 2 March 1894
Monarch	Victoria
Preceded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
Succeeded by	The Earl of Rosebery
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 28 December 1852 – 28 February 1855
Prime Minister	The Earl of Aberdeen
Preceded by	Benjamin Disraeli
Succeeded by	George Cornewall Lewis
In office 18 June 1859 – 26 June 1866
Prime Minister	The Viscount Palmerston The Earl Russell
Preceded by	Benjamin Disraeli
Succeeded by	Benjamin Disraeli
In office 11 August 1873 – 17 February 1874
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Robert Lowe
Succeeded by	Stafford Northcote
In office 28 April 1880 – 16 December 1882
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Stafford Northcote
Succeeded by	Hugh Childers
Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
In office 23 December 1845 – 27 June 1846
Prime Minister	Robert Peel
Preceded by	The Earl of Derby
Succeeded by	The Earl of Grey
President of the Board of Trade
In office 15 May 1843 – 5 February 1845
Prime Minister	Robert Peel
Preceded by	The Earl of Ripon
Succeeded by	The Earl of Dalhousie
Member of Parliament
In office 8 January 1833 – 30 January 1846
Preceded by	Thomas Wilde
Succeeded by	John Stuart
Constituency	Newark
In office 26 August 1847 – 7 August 1895
Preceded by	Thomas Grimston Estcourt
Succeeded by	Thomas Gibson-Carmichael
Constituency	Oxford University (1847–65) South Lancashire (1865–68) Greenwich (1868–80) Midlothian (1880–95)
Personal details
Born	(1809-12-29)29 December 1809 62 Rodney Street, Liverpool, England
Died	19 May 1898(1898-05-19) (aged 88) Hawarden Castle, Wales
Resting place	Westminster Abbey
Nationality	British
Political party	Tory (1828–1834) Conservative (1834–1846) Peelite (1846–1859) Liberal (1859–1898)
Spouse(s)	Catherine Glynne ​ (m. 1839)​
Children	8, including William Helen Henry Herbert
Parent(s)	Sir John Gladstone (father)
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
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William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Victorian politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the Liberal Party in four terms between 1868 and 1894.

His career lasted more than 60 years. He served as Liberal Prime Minister four times. This was more than any other person (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). Gladstone was 84 years old when he resigned for the last time. This made him Britain's oldest ever Prime Minister. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times (1853–1855, 1859–1866, 1873–1874 and 1880–1882).

Gladstone was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.

Images for kids

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  Gladstone in the 1830s

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  A pensive Gladstone, from the book Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling

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  Gladstone in 1859, painted by George Frederic Watts.

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  Gladstone in 1861, photographed by John Mayall.

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  Gladstone as caricatured by Vanity Fair in 1869.

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  Gladstone in 1874, painted by Franz von Lenbach.

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  Portrait of Gladstone at Hawarden in 1877

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  Gladstone in 1879, painted by John Everett Millais.

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  The Cabinet Council, 1883 by Théobald Chartran, published in Vanity Fair, 27 November 1883

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  Gladstone in 1884, photographed by Rupert Potter

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  A political cartoon depicting Gladstone "kicked out of office" in 1886

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  Gladstone in 1886, as painted by Franz von Lenbach.

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  Gladstone in old age

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  Gladstone's grave in Westminster Abbey

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  Gladstone c. 1835, painted by William Cubley.

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  Gladstone at Hawarden with his grandchild Dorothy Drew (1890-1982), daughter of Mary Gladstone

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  Dollis House, Gladstone Park, as seen from the gardens

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  Statue at Aldwych, London, near to the Royal Courts of Justice and opposite Australia House

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  Statue in Albert Square, Manchester, Manchester

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  Statue on the Gladstone Monument in Coates Crescent Gardens, Edinburgh

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  A statue in Athens

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  A high school named after Gladstone in Sofia, Bulgaria