Gladstone, William Ewart

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1. An English political leader and author of the nineteenth century. A leader of the Liberal party and a political opponent of Benjamin Disraeli, he served as prime minister several times during the reign of Queen Victoria. One of Gladstone's strongest interests, not satisfied in his lifetime, was providing Ireland with a government of its own. He served in the British parliament for sixty years.

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Example Sentences

Gladstone, William Ewart, 44, 200, 318, 350, 424.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

Gladstone, William Ewart, a literary blunder of, 152, 153.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman