Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

( Disraeli is in the lead looking back over his shoulder at Gladstone.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

UCSF is also affiliated with the San Francisco VA Hospital and the J. David Gladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research entity that has recently moved to a new building adjacent to UCSF's Mission Bay campus.

Gladstone is famous for his oratory, for his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli and his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, " He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting.

It has raised Gladstone to a great political elevation, and, what is of far greater consequence than the measure itself, has given the country assurance of a man equal to great political necessities, and fit to lead parties and direct governments.

Possibly related to this hobby is the fact that Gladstone was a lifelong bibliophile to the extent that it has been suggested that in his lifetime, he read around 20, 000 books, and eventually came to own a Library of over 32, 000.

Gladstone wrote in 1859 to his brother who was a member of the Financial Reform Association at Liverpool: " Economy is the first and great article ( economy such as I understand it ) in my financial creed.

A victorious Gladstone told his new constituency, " At last, my friends, I am come among you ; and I am come — to use an expression which has become very famous and is not likely to be forgotten — I am come ' unmuzzled '.

After a few minutes the blows ceased and Mr. Gladstone, resting on the handle of his axe, looked up, and with deep earnestness in his voice, and great intensity in his face, exclaimed: ‘ My mission is to pacify Ireland .’ He then resumed his task, and never said another word till the tree was down.

George Howell wrote to Gladstone on 12 February: " There is one lesson to be learned from this Election, that is Organization ... We have lost not by a change of sentiment so much as by want of organised power ".

In a speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society on 17 August 1876, Gladstone said that " I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion ,— if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves.

It is quite true, as has been often said, that “ we are all socialists up to a certain point ”; but Mr. Gladstone fixed that point lower, and was more vehement against those who went above it, than any other politician or official of my acquaintance.

Gladstone claimed that this Liberalism's " pet idea is what they call construction, — that is to say, taking into the hands of the state the business of the individual man ".

On 11 December 1891 Gladstone said that: " It is a lamentable fact if, in the midst of our civilisation, and at the close of the nineteenth century, the workhouse is all that can be offered to the industrious labourer at the end of a long and honourable life.

Gladstone is both the oldest ever person to form a government – aged 82 at his appointment – and the oldest person ever to occupy the Premiership – being aged 84 at his resignation.

On 13 January Gladstone claimed he had strong Conservative instincts and that " In all matters of custom and tradition, even the Tories look upon me as the chief Conservative that is ".

On 2 January 1897 Gladstone wrote to Francis Hirst on being unable to write a preface to a book on liberalism: " I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism ".

If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.

The area between Somerset Street West and Gladstone Avenue ( within the Bank Street Promenade ) is considered the centre of Ottawa's burgeoning gay village, characterized by a small concentration of businesses targeted to Ottawa's gay community.

Gladstone Airport is located in the western suburbs of Gladstone about 6 km ( 8 minute drive ) from the centre of the city.

At present there are five campuses located within Central Queensland ( Rockhampton, Mackay, Gladstone, Bundaberg and Emerald ), campuses in Noosa and the Gold Coast in South East Queensland, capital city campuses in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne which cater to a mix of international and domestic students, a study centre in Cairns, a research site in Adelaide, South Australia and a delivery site in Geraldton, Western Australia.

CQUniversity's Gladstone campus is located within the Gladstone Marina precinct and is home ot the university's two largest research centres, the Process Engineering and Light Metals centre and the Centre for Environmental Management.

Its major regional centre is Rockhampton and the Capricorn Coast and the area extends west to the Central Highlands at Emerald, north to the Mackay Regional Council southern boundary, and south to Gladstone.

As prime minister 1868 to 1874 he headed a Liberal Party that was a coalition of Peelites like himself, Whigs and radicals ; Gladstone was now a spokesman for " peace, economy and reform.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

Since 1988 some of his comic stories have been published in the USA by Gladstone Publishing ; it was the first time that this happened to an Italian Disney author.

; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.

Gladstone gave evidence to the Committee: " I approached the subject in the first instance as I think everyone in Parliament of necessity did, with the strongest possible prejudice against the proposal interfere ; but the facts stated were of so extraordinary and deplorable a character, that it was impossible to withhold attention from them.

... there was one man who not only united high ability with unparalleled opportunity but also knew how to turn budgets into political triumphs and who stands in history as the greatest English financier of economic liberalism, Gladstone ... The greatest feature of Gladstonian finance ... was that it expressed with ideal adequacy both the whole civilisation and the needs of the time, ex visu of the conditions of the country to which it was to apply ; or, to put it slightly differently, that it translated a social, political, and economic vision, which was comprehensive as well as historically correct, into the clauses of a set of co-ordinated fiscal measures ... Gladstonian finance was the finance of the system of ' natural liberty ,' laissez-faire, and free trade ... the most important thing was to remove fiscal obstructions to private activity.

That is the doctrine not merely of Peel, of Disraeli, of Salisbury, and Chamberlain ; it is the doctrine of Gladstone ; it is the doctrine of Cobden ; it is the doctrine of Bright ; and it is the doctrine of Campbell Bannerman ... It is the doctrine of all the great Liberal leaders of the past and present ".

* Richard Shannon, Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809 – 1865 ( 1985 ), ISBN 0-8078-1591-8 ; Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865 – 1898 ( 1999 ), ISBN 0-8078-2486-0.

* Matthew, H. C. G. " Gladstone, William Ewart ( 1809 – 1898 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ( 2004 ; online edition May 2006

Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion, and Nationality in the Victorian Age ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 307 pages

* April 4 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill in the British Parliament ; it is defeated on June 8.

When Gladstone retired after the defeat of the second Home Rule Bill in 1894, the Welsh Liberal members chose him to serve on a deputation to William Harcourt to press for specific assurances on Welsh issues ; when those were not provided, they resolved to take independent action if the government did not bring a bill for disestablishment.

* Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ( 1854 – 1930 ), Home Secretary 1905 – 1910 and Governor-General of South Africa 1910 – 1914 ; youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone

Gladstone finally retired in 1894, and his ineffectual successor, Lord Rosebery, led the party to another heavy defeat in the 1895 general election.

The 1890s were marred by infighting between the three principal successors to Gladstone, party leader William Harcourt, former Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, and Gladstone's personal secretary, John Morley.

Prime Ministers of the period included: Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, Lord Derby, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, and Lord Rosebery.

The Queen did not ask Gladstone who should succeed him but sent for Lord Rosebery ( Gladstone would have advised on Lord Spencer ).

The Liberal statesman Lord Rosebery commented on what Gladstone would make of this budget:

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

With his party divided, Gladstone prepared to dissolve Parliament on the issue of the House of Lords ' veto, but was compelled to resign in March 1894 by his colleagues, being replaced by Lord Rosebery.

Lord Cork was a Liberal politician and served as Master of the Buckhounds and as Master of the Horse under Lord Russell, William Ewart Gladstone and Lord Rosebery.

He served as a Lord in Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) under Gladstone and then Lord Rosebery between 1892 and 1895.

He also served as Secretary of State for War twice, in the Cabinets of Gladstone and Rosebery.

Gladstone himself nonetheless hoped that Spencer would be his successor, but the Queen did not seek his advice, and chose Lord Rosebery instead.

The three Prime Ministers from 1880 to 1902 – Gladstone, Salisbury and Rosebery – all went to both Eton and Christ Church.

Disraeli's major rival, William Ewart Gladstone, also pursued Rosebery, with considerable success.

As part of the Liberal plan to get Gladstone to be MP for Midlothian, Rosebery sponsored and largely ran the Midlothian Campaign of 1879.

Finally, when Gladstone took up Home Rule for Ireland, Lord Granville, whose mind was similarly receptive to new ideas, adhered to his chief ( 1886 ), and gracefully gave way to Lord Rosebery when the latter was preferred to the foreign office ; the Liberals had now realized that they had lost ground in the country by Lord Granville's occupancy of the post.

Harcourt backed Gladstone but Rosebery used the incident as an excuse to resign as Leader of the Opposition and Harcourt became an unenthusiastic leader.

He was succeeded by his grandson, Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys, who served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the Liberal governments of William Gladstone and Lord Rosebery.

In a ministerial career stretching almost 30 years, he was most notably twice Secretary of State for Scotland under William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery.

He served under William Ewart Gladstone as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1884 to 1885, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1886 and as President of the Local Government Board from 1892 to 1894 and under Lord Rosebery as Secretary of State for India from 1894 to 1895.

He succeeded his father in the barony in March 1894, only a few days before Gladstone resigned and Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister.

Under-Secretary of State for India and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Gladstone in 1886 and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty under Gladstone and Lord Rosebery between 1892 and 1895.

Included in the photograph are William Ewart Gladstone and his Catherine Gladstone | wife and daughter Mary Gladstone, and the Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | Earl and Hannah, Countess of Rosebery | Countess of Rosebery.