Gladstone
"William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS (29 December 1809 ? 19 May 1898), was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868?1874, 1880?1885, February?July 1886 and 1892?1894), more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 when he resigned for the last time. He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times (1853?1855, 1859?1866, 1873?1874, and 1880?1882)."--Wikipedia
Print Book, English, 1984-1999
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1984-1999
Biography
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780807815915, 9780807824863, 0807815918, 0807824860
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v. 1. 1809-1865. The formative values, 1809-1832 : 'I hope to lead a severe life'
First vocation, 1833-1841 : 'I have been long ago pledged to the service of the church'
'A further declension in the religious character of the state of these realms' : 1841-1845
'My work is gone' : the end of the ideal of state and church, 1845-1851
'This whirl which carries me off balance' : foundations of a new vocation, 1851-1855
'What connections can be formed with public approval' : 1855-1859
'The horizon enlarges, the sky shifts, around me' : 1859-1862
'Some better gleams of light' : 1862-1865
v. 2. 1865-1898. 'Making history' : the struggle for reform, 1865-6
'In the path of right' : from reform to Ireland, 1866-8
'The Almighty seems to sustain and spare me...' : heroic Peelite government, 1869-71
'The future of politics hardly exists for me' : the strait way to abdication, 1872-5
'A virtuous passion' : the people and the question of the East, 1875-7
'A great and high election of God' : leadership of the nation reaffirmed, 1877-80
'The Almighty has employed me...' : exorcizing 'Beaconsfieldism', 1880-81
'An author of unbound intelligence who works towards justice truth and mercy' : towards an unbound future, 1881-2
'We have the interests of justice, peace, and freedom in our hands' : Ireland, Egypt, reform, 1883-5
'Such a supreme moment' : Peelite heroism in shock-tactic form, 1885-6
'Hold thou up my goings in thy paths' : the slippery paths of home rule, 1886
'Now begins the great struggle' : appeal against the verdict, 1886-90
'I am no longer fit for public life' : appeal dismissed, 1891-3
'Voices from the dead encouraging me' : one last bid, 1893-4
Epilogue : 'A survival from the time of Sir Robert Peel' : last years, 1894-8
Originally published: v. 1. London : Hamilton, 1982; v. 2. London : Penguin, 1999