Show william ewart gladstone the right lion ilon wm ewart giad glad stone En glands great statesman and orator was the fourth BOB son 0 of sir john gladstone scotland he lie was born december 29 1800 at liverpool Lanca lancashire abl re england where his father had won eminence and wealth as a west india merchant and slaveholder win ewart passed through a thorough school training at eton and afterwards wert t to christ church college oxford where be he closed a college career thai that can only be termed brilliant taking it a double first elage d degree or in other words the highest me honors conors that it was possible for him to attain the career marked out for him was undoubtedly that of a politician and it will not therefore be surprising to learn that go so early aa as 1832 he was sent to the house of commons a aa I 1 fit the representative dative of newark sir robert peel was at it thi this time the re reix i ning of earlish politics and in 1833 he appointed mr gladstone under secretary of state tor the colonies a very high honor tor for ao so young a three years after this he published hia his first work the stats state in ita its hala rela eions to the church which caused the great reviewer mr air bla macaulay caulay in speaking of the work to write that gladstone was a young man ot of unblemished character the rising hope hop of the stern and unbending tones 11 I 1 4 in 1811 gladstone was appointed 1 vice I ce president of the board of trade and two yeara years afterwards president u under rider sir robert peel next to big c chief hief be he took be the moet meet prominent part in the revision of the tariff and redaction reduction of import duties which re reached c bed their natural development in th the e repeal of the corn laws in 1847 he wag was elected 31 P for the university of oxford which position he held tor for eighteen years andol and of which he always felt proud the dun dungeons geonis of the two Sicil iea ies in 1850 swarmed with political prisoners and sir mr gladstone whose heart throbbed towards all who suffered from tyranny went and investigated and soon made all europe ring with hia his description of the coage and bat out felings of the unfortunate beings incarcerated car about thia this time he eloquently advocated the cause of it italian alian independence in 1851 he opposed the ecclesiastical titles bill lie ile airet became chancellor of the exchequer in 1852 and this maybe may be looked looked upon as the turning taming point in his career hitherto be he bad had been a tory henceforth be he proved roved himself a 1 liberal iberal in in 1853 1953 he published an elaborate work on homer and the homeric age in he carried a commercial treaty with france this too wag was the year be attacked and subsequently carried his opposition to the paper taper doty duty to a successful issue and that the t too I 1 in n 0 pite of the opposition of th the 0 bousa housa of lords whose opposition 0 n he ile denounced in eloquent but a at t the same time withering sarcasm in 1806 gladstone became leader of the bouse house of commons and at once introduced a reform bill which however was defeated in he succeeded in dis establishing the irish church in 1870 be carried an irish land bill in 1871 he be was the cause of purchase for promotion in tha the army he abolished and in 1872 carried ahr through 0 ugh parliament the ballot bill what is known as the washington treaty dealing with the alabama claims was negotiated by the right honorable gentleman in 1871 in 18 6 air gladstone took a prominent part in denouncing the cr cruelties cruel ties perpetrated by the turks in bulgaria and in protesting against all i attempts especially by england to bolster up the effete ottoman power at the expense of the christian races in 1880 1980 the right honorable gentleman again became prime minister of england when he at once by bis his foreign policy endeavored to secure the carrying out ont by turkey the yet unfulfilled conditions of the berlyn theaty pressing on the porte ports the rectification of the greek frontier and the cessation to montenegro of territory agreed upon by the representatives of the powers at or about the close of this year the condition of ireland became the pressing question of the hour from that day to the present mr gladstone gave to this subject bis his most serious and we need scarcely arcely Bc add his broadminded broad mind minded ed atten uon to the ame amelioration of that uc or happy country 6 gladstone lad stone besides boing being an orator of transcendent worth was a writer of writers not of the dime novel class but of that sterlin sterling 1 school whose works are bound to fil live e after the clayey temple has passed from the earth he ile was the author of the following A manuel of prayers J Ju ventus biundi 11 homeric pamphlets on the vatican decrees the turk in europe A primer on homer gleanings of past years etc etc |