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.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

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.

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.

Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.

* Herbert John Gladstone ( 1854 – 1930 ), MP and Viscount Gladstone.

In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels, " Gladstone " is the name of Dr. John Watson's English bulldog.

* John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone ( Three volumes, 1903 )

Peckforton Castle was built between 1844 and 1850 for John Tollemache, the largest landowner in Cheshire at the time, who was described by William Ewart Gladstone as " the greatest estate manager of his day ".

He became a member of the Royal Institution and later, replaced Dr. John Hall Gladstone in the role of Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in 1877.

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* John Neilson Gladstone ( 1807 – 1863 ), MP and brother of William Ewart Gladstone

* John Hall Gladstone ( 1827 – 1902 ), British chemist

Gladstone is served by the Gladstone School District, which includes John Wetten Elementary School, Kraxberger Middle School, and Gladstone High School.

" The effects of the Great Depression in Scotland, and the subsequent high emigration from that country, also led Buchan to reflect in the same speech: " We do not want to be like the Greeks, powerful and prosperous wherever we settle, but with a dead Greece behind us ," and he found himself profoundly affected by John Morley's Life of Gladstone, which Buchan read in the early months of the Second World War.

Starting in 1986 when Gladstone took over publishing the title they have also included new stories by American creators Don Rosa, John Lustig, Pat McGreal, Dave Rawson, Michael T. Gilbert and William Van Horn along with translations of European Disney comics by such creators as Daan Jippes, Fred Milton and Romano Scarpa originally published by Oberon, Egmont and Disney Italy / Mondadori.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Taking a bath sponge to the police station in a Gladstone bag, Holmes washes Boone's still-dirty face, causing his face to be revealed — the face of Neville St. Clair!

Since 1937, Gladstone has been portrayed on no fewer than 37 occasions in film and television, beginning with Montagu Love's appearance as him in the 1937 film Parnell.

* Mr. Gladstone, a pseudonym taken by the character Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 film, The Graduate

The windmill in which Porter and his colleagues are trapped is located at Terling, Essex, and " Gladstone ", the ancient steam train, was portrayed by No. 2 Northiam 2-4-0T built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1899 and loaned by the Kent and East Sussex Railway to the film.

* NPR's Brooke Gladstone explains Tausk's " Influencing Machine " in an animated short film

Born in in Gladstone, Queensland, Bishop's film debut was in Bruce Beresfords 1997 movie Paradise Road, and appeared as Sergeant Ben Stewart on Blue Heelers from 1998 to 2004 for which he received Logie nominations in both 1999 and 2000.

Then Chris Broad scored three hundreds in successive Tests and bowling successes from Graham Dilley and Gladstone Small meant England won the series 2 – 1.

* Joey Gladstone, one of the main characters on the TV series Full House

* Gladstone class, or LB & SCR B1 class, a series of steam locomotives of the 1880s, built by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

In 1990 Gladstone was licensed to publish a series of albums reprinting nearly all the Disney duck stories of Carl Barks.

* Walt Disney's Comics and Stories ( issues # 548-585 ) — continuing series earlier published by Dell Comics ( 1940 – 1962 ), Gold Key Comics / Whitman, ( 1962 – 1984 ), and Gladstone Publishing ( 1986 – 1990 )

* Uncle Scrooge ( issues # 243-280 ) — continuing series earlier published by Dell Comics ( 1952 – 1962 ), Gold Key Comics / Whitman ( 1962-1984 ), and Gladstone Publishing ( 1986-1990 )

These featured older stories, prefaced by opening editorials similar to the earlier Gladstone Comic Album series.

In 1990, Gladstone Publishing was granted a new license to publish a series of softcover albums aimed at the collectors market, reprinting in color the stories of Carl Barks.

Some members of Scrooge's extended family ( The Duck Universe ), like Gladstone Gander who had extremely good luck, were also seen in the series.

Other minor, but notable characters include Donald Duck, who left Huey, Dewey and Louie in Scrooge's care at the start of the series ; Gladstone Gander, Scrooge's inexplicably lucky nephew ; Scrooge's old flame, Glittering Goldie ; Merlock, a powerful magician who served as the movie's main villain ; and Dijon, a thief who worked either on his own or for Merlock.

In 1874, when Gladstone published his pamphlet on The Vatican Decrees, Lord Acton wrote during November and December a series of remarkable letters to The Times, illustrating Gladstone's main theme by numerous historical examples of papal inconsistency, in a way which must have been bitter enough to the ultramontane party, but ultimately disagreeing with Gladstone's conclusion and insisting that the Church itself was better than its premises implied.

File: DonaldDuck 6th logo. jpg | 6th logo of Donald Duck: 1987-2010 ( issues # 253 -# 357 ), main logo by Gladstone Publishing ( 1987-1990, 1993-1998 ) for the series, carried on by successors Gemstone ( 2003-2008 ), and Boom!

As a finance minister he was largely dominated by the lines of policy laid down by Gladstone ; but he distinguished himself by his dealings with the debt, especially his introduction of the new sinking fund in 1876, by which he fixed the annual charge for the debt in such a way as to provide for a regular series of payments off the capital.

Beginning with the 1994 season, Marvel Comics began publishing a comic book series based on the programs featured on the block, as part of their line of comics based on modern Disney properties ( the classic properties were licensed to Gladstone Publishing ).

However, Gladstone attacked the bill ; a series of sparkling parliamentary debates with Disraeli, resulted in the bill being much more radical.

The Midlothian campaign was a series of foreign policy speeches given by William Ewart Gladstone.

By 1880, Gladstone's dogged focus on the issue had dragged it to the forefront of public attention, and in the general election of 1880, Gladstone toured a series of cities giving speeches of up to five hours on the subject.

Clive Gladstone Robertson ( born 17 December 1965 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England ) is a British actor perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach, the Canadian science fiction series Starhunter, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.

Subjects in the series were Lennox Lewis ( Boxing ), Judy Simpson ( Athletics ), Martin Offiah ( Rugby league ), Diana Bowles ( Disabled Tennis ), Tony Daley ( Football ), Gladstone Small ( Cricket ) and John Regis ( Athletics ).

Melissa Jaffer ( born 1 December 1936 in Gladstone, South Australia ) is an Australian actress who has made many appearances in television series, including Kings, Mother and Son, G. P., Brides of Christ, Grass Roots and All Saints.