British Liberal prime minister (1809–1898)
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He held the office of Prime Minister four separate times across nearly three decades — more than anyone in British history — and spent over 60 years in Parliament, transforming from a High Tory defender of the old order into "The People's William," the face of reformist liberalism and the first politician to take his case directly to the working class.
Born in Liverpool in 1809 to a Scottish merchant and slaveholder, Gladstone came up through Eton and Oxford and entered the Commons in 1832 as a High Tory. He broke with his party in 1846 after Robert Peel's fall, drifted through the Peelite faction, and merged into the new Liberal Party in 1859, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under three prime ministers. His first ministry in 1868 disestablished the Church of Ireland and introduced the secret ballot; after losing in 1874 he resigned as leader, only to mount a comeback in the late 1870s on moral fury over Ottoman massacres in Bulgaria.…
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life.
What has been the state of things since 1853?
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed.
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient, as lighting by gas.
Sir, there is not war with China, but what is there? There is hostility. There is bloodshed. There is a trampling down of the weak by the strong.
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