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abandoned him and even Irish Radicals
had to restrain him.

abandoned him and even Irish Radicals
had to restrain him.
He took office as a protectionist, but
aided in establishing free trade: launch
ed into literature with a plea for the
union of church and state so extreme
that even the Tories repudlated 1t, and
ended by destroying the Irish estab-
lishment: and though his first public
utterance to be generally noticed in
America was a eulogy on Jefferson
Davis and the southern confederacy,
and his next a savage criticism on tina
Irish party. he lived to be the most
popular of Englishmen to Americans
and the ideal statesman to Irishmen.
His father. John Gladstone, was a
prominent merchant and his mother
was of Scotch royal descent. William
Ewart Gladstone was born In Liverpool
Dec 20. 1909. He was educated at Eton
and at Christ's church, Oxford. In
1881 be was graduated. and the next
year was elected to parliament from
Newark.
He continued to represent that bor-
ough till 1886 In 1884 Gladstone first
took office" as under secretary for the
colonies. Sir Robert Peel being premier.
Being thrown out" by the defeat of
Peel in 1885. he employed his leisure
In literary work and published the once
celebrated Church and State"
In 1888 he married Miss Margaret
Glynne. of a Welsh family. and in 1S40
put forth another peculiar work on
church affairs. In 1s4l he again took
a place in the cabinet and soon became
a., Jr Lo
signed because the government favored
the Catholic college in Ireland. but soon
came in again. In 1S47 he was chosen
to represent Oxford and then. for the
first time, began to advocate liberal
measures. the first being the bill for
removing the disabilities of the Jews,
which he had opposed in 1S41. In 1851
81 he became a leader of the Liberals
and entered on that long contest with
Disraell which continued without truce
till 1876, when Disrael became Lord
Beaconsfield and entered the house of
lords.
In 1868 Mr.. Dsraeli succeeded Lord
Derby as prime minister, but before the
year had run out Disraelis cabinet was
dissolved and Gladstone was called to
the premiership. In 1874. owing to the
defeat of his Irish university BILL Glad
stone rendered his resignation as pre-
mier but on Disraeli refusing to form
cabinet Gladstone consented to re-
main in office. Early in the following
year parliament was dissolved, and the
Liberals were overwhelmingly defeated
In the elections. This caused Glad
stones retirement. but he returned to
the premiership In 1880. In 1885 he
again resigned, being succeeded by
Lord Salisbury. In 1886 he was restored
to power for the third time, but held
the premiership for only five months,
being again succeeded by Salisbury.
In 1892 he became premier for the
fourth time. but in the following year,
owing to the defeat of his Irish home
rule bill in the house of lords, Mr..
Gladstone again retired, and Salisbury
once more became premier.
Gladstone was never a favorite with
Victoria. Indeed the queen has said
more than once with emphasis that she
detested him. and said it in a wav to
imply that she also feared him. Their
personal discussions more than once
terminated in angry words, but the pre-
mier never tlinched from facing royalty.
you must take this action" he once
said to her.
Must! Did you say must?" she
angrily retorted. And do you know.
sir, who | amp"
MADAME" answered Gladstone COOL
ly, you are the queen of England; but
do you know who 1 am? I am the peo-
pie of England, and in this emergency
the people say 'must""
1t is scarcely necessary to add that
the people" prevailed.
Hawarden became the property Of
Mr.. Gladstone by his marriage with
Miss Glynne, who inherited 1t through
a long line of descent from one Ser
geant Glynne and his son, the Baronet
William Glynne.
OF their eight children one daughter
died in infancy, two daughters are
married, and Helen, still single. holds
the honorable place of principal of
Newnham college at Cambridge. She
already ranks high among the edu-
Gated women of the world. OF the four
sons one Is rector of HaWarden, an
other is In parliament. the third Is
active in politics and the fourth is in
business at Calcutta.
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