During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

During his last period in office, in 1881, William Ewart Gladstone claimed residence in numbers 10, 11 and 12 for himself and his family.

During the first run Gladstone issued 28 albums and seven giant albums consisting mostly of reprints of stories by Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson.

During this dispute, Grosvenor sold his portrait of Gladstone that had been painted by Millais.

During the election campaign of 1880 ( the " Midlothian campaign ") that resulted in the defeat of Disraeli's government, William Ewart Gladstone delivered a famous speech in Dalkeith.

During the autumn of 1877 he went to London, Paris and Berlin on a confidential mission, establishing cordial personal relationships with British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and Foreign Minister Lord Granville and other English statesmen, and with Otto von Bismarck, by then Chancellor of the German Empire.

During the 1880s, the Liberal Party faced a split between a Radical wing ( led by Joseph Chamberlain ) and a Whig wing ( led by the Marquess of Hartington ), with its party leader, William Ewart Gladstone straddling the middle.

Merryfield joined Only Fools and Horses in January 1985, as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's globetrotting long-lost brother, and who was known for Uncle Albert's catchphrase of " During the war ..."

During the divorce controversy surrounding Charles Stewart Parnell in November 1890, the British Prime Minister Gladstone expressed a warning, given to Justin McCarthy as intermediary, that if Parnell retained leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party it would mean the loss of the next election, the end of their alliance and Home Rule.

In his Midlothian Campaign – so called because he stood as a candidate for that county – Gladstone spoke in fields, halls and railway stations to hundreds, sometimes thousands, of students, farmers, labourers and middle class workers.

Gladstone won his constituency election in Midlothian and also in Leeds, where he had also been adopted as a candidate.

In October 1890 Gladstone at Midlothian claimed that competition between capital and labour, " where it has gone to sharp issues, where there have been strikes on one side and lock-outs on the other, I believe that in the main and as a general rule, the labouring man has been in the right ".

* A monument to Gladstone, Member of Parliament for Midlothian 1880 – 1895 was unveiled in Edinburgh in 1917 ( and moved to its present location in 1955 ).

* W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches.

* William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ), MP for Midlothian 1880-1895 and conducted his famous Midlothian campaign across the UK in 1880

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

The relative political fortunes of Gladstone and Hartington fluctuated-Gladstone was not popular at the time of Benjamin Disraeli's triumph at the Congress of Berlin, but the Midlothian Campaigns of 1879-80 marked him out as the Liberals ' foremost public campaigner.

He called Gladstone the " Moloch of Midlothian ", for whom torrents of blood had been shed in Africa.

In 1879, Dalkeith was where Gladstone first started his campaign for British Prime Minister, which became known as The Midlothian Campaign.

He made his maiden speech on 12 July 2001, in which he remembered one of his predecessors as the Midlothian MP and former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone.

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

It takes its name from the Midlothian constituency in Scotland where Gladstone successfully stood in the following election.

Disraeli's foreign policy was seen as immoral by Gladstone, and following the latter's Midlothian Campaign, the government was heavily defeated in the next General Election, whereupon Gladstone formed his second government.

O ' Connor authored a range of books, including Lord Beaconsfield – A Biography ( 1879 ); The Parnell Movement ( 1886 ); Gladstone ’ s House of Commons ; Napoleon ; The Phantom Millions ; and Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian ( 1929 ).

Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone were both installed as rectors of the University of Glasgow in the palace, in 1873 and 1879 respectively-its last use as a public events venue, before becoming wholly used for the cultivation of temperate plants.

Speaking in November 1920 Asquith quoted Gladstone to show " the only way to escape from the financial morass towards which the government are heading ".

He expressly stated that “ if he ever had a political leader, his leader was John Bright, not Mr Gladstone .” Speaking in 1886, he referred to his " standing by the side of John Bright against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the West, as I now stand against the dismemberment of the great Anglo-Saxon community of the East .” These words form the key to his views of the future of the British Empire.

" Speaking in a 2005 radio interview with Brooke Gladstone, after receiving the Pulitzer Prize, Neil described the symbiotic relationship between the automobile industry and its critics:

Gladstone went beyond image by appealing directly to the people.

Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone cultivated the public image as a man of the people by circulating pictures like this of himself cutting down oak trees with an axe.

Gladstone, who saw little value in the Empire, proposed an anti-Imperialist policy ( later called " Little England "), and cultivated the image of himself ( and the Liberal Party ) as " man of the people " by circulating pictures of himself cutting down great oak trees with an axe as a hobby.

The more people who paid income tax, Gladstone believed, the more the public would pressure the government into abolishing it.

Gladstone argued that the £ 100 line was " the dividing line ... between the educated and the labouring part of the community " and that therefore the income tax payers and the electorate were to be the same people, who would then vote to cut government expenditure.

Gladstone believed that government was extravagant and wasteful with taxpayers ' money and so sought to let money " fructify in the pockets of the people " by keeping taxation levels down through " peace and retrenchment ".

When Mr Gladstone visited the North, you well remember when word passed from the newspaper to the workman that it circulated through mines and mills, factories and workshops, and they came out to greet the only British minister who ever gave the English people a right because it was just they should have it ... and when he went down the Tyne, all the country heard how twenty miles of banks were lined with people who came to greet him.

When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with Mr Gladstone as one of themselves.

When on 15 March 1938 relatives and people who knew Gladstone were gathered at Broadcasting House none were able to voice any certainty on the veracity of the four recordings played.

He believed that Gladstone had taught people to combat materialism, complacency, and authoritarianism ; Buchan later wrote to Herbert Fisher, Stair Gillon, and Gilbert Murray that he was " becoming a Gladstonian Liberal.

With the Liberal Party actively opposing Disraeli's foreign policy during the Russo-Turkish War, Gladstone addressed approximately 30, 000 people at Bingley Hall on 31 May 1877 to found the National Liberal Federation, a federation of the country's Liberal Associations.

On each occasion, Parnell's demands were entirely within the accepted parameters of Liberal thinking, Gladstone noting that he was one of the best people he had known to deal with, a remarkable transition from an inmate at Kilmainham to an intimate at Hawarden in just over seven years.

Nevertheless, during the marriage Terry made the acquaintance of a number of cultured and important and talented people, among them Browning, Tennyson, Gladstone, Disraeli and the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

By the 1880s he was denouncing " the new Toryism " ( that is, the " social reformist wing " of the Liberal party – the wing to some extent hostile to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, this faction of the Liberal party Spencer compared to the interventionist " Toryism " of such people as the former Conservative party Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli ).

Hallam was an important influence on Gladstone, introducing him to Whiggish ideas and people.

Supporting Bradlaugh were William Ewart Gladstone, T. P. O ' Connor and George Bernard Shaw as well as hundreds of thousands of people who signed a public petition.

Many famous people have lived or practised in Harley Street, including the Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, the artist J. M. W. Turner, and Lionel Logue, who successfully treated King George VI for his pronounced stuttering.

Gladstone continued to attack government policy in Ireland without condemning police treatment of Irish people living in Britain.