Gladstone is a small rural town in the Mid North of South Australia in the approach to the lower Flinders Ranges.

The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy.

The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy.

In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party.

* Butler, P. Gladstone, church, state, and Tractarianism: a study of his religious ideas and attitudes, 1809 – 1859 ( 1982 )

When the scandal broke, religious non-conformists in Great Britain, who were the backbone of the pro-Home Rule Liberal Party, forced its leader W. E. Gladstone to abandon support for the Irish cause as long as Parnell remained leader of the IPP.

Ultimately, the land question was settled through successive Irish Land Acts by United Kingdom governments – beginning with the 1881 Act of William Ewart Gladstone, which first gave extensive rights to tenant farmers, then the Wyndham Land Purchase Act ( 1903 ) won by William O ' Brien after the 1902 Land Conference, enabling tenant farmers purchase their plots of land from their landlords, the problems of non-existent rural housing resolved by D. D. Sheehan under the Bryce Labourers ( Ireland ) Act ( 1906 ).

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

Jenkins wrote 19 books, including a biography of Gladstone ( 1995 ), which won the 1995 Whitbread Award for Biography, and a much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill ( 2001 ).

Gladstone served as President of the Oxford Union debating society, where he developed a reputation as an orator, which followed him into the House of Commons.

Gladstone published his first book, The State in its Relations with the Church, in 1838, in which he argued that the goal of the state should be to promote and defend the interests of the Church of England.

Gladstone proclaimed that " the expenses of a war are the moral check which it has pleased the Almighty to impose on the ambition and the lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations ".

... 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.

As Chancellor, Gladstone made a speech at Newcastle on 7 October 1862 in which he supported the independence of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War, claiming that Jefferson Davis had " made a nation ".

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 '.

Russell & Gladstone ( now the senior Liberal in the House of Commons ) attempted to pass a reform bill, which was defeated in the House of Commons because of the refusal of the " Adullamite " Whigs, led by Robert Lowe, to support it.

In November 1874, Gladstone published the pamphlet The Vatican Decrees in their Bearing on Civil Allegiance, directed at the First Vatican Council's dogmatising Papal Infallibility in 1870, which had outraged him.

On July 11, 1882, Gladstone ordered the bombardment of Alexandria, starting the Anglo-Egyptian War, which resulted in the occupation of Egypt.

Gladstone was becoming increasingly uneasy about the direction in which British politics was moving.

On 23 October at Southport Gladstone delivered a speech where he claimed that the right to combination, which in London was " innocent and lawful, in Ireland would be penal and ... punished by imprisonment with hard labour ".

Gladstone wrote on 16 July 1892 in his autobiographica that " In 1834 the Government ... did themselves high honour by the new Poor Law Act, which rescued the English peasantry from the total loss of their independence ".

Gladstone wrote to Herbert Spencer, who contributed the introduction to a collection of anti-socialist essays ( A Plea for Liberty, 1891 ), that " I ask to make reserves, and of one passage, which will be easily guessed, I am unable even to perceive the relevancy.

Gladstone said that the government would withdraw opposition to the Lords ' amendments to the Local Government Bill " under protest " and that it was " a controversy which, when once raised, must go forward to an issue ".

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

Asquith replied to this speech at the National Liberal Club: "... keep faithful to your old traditions ... Think, in a situation such as this, and with appeals such as those which have been made to our fellow Liberals outside, what would have been the attitude of Mr Gladstone.

For it is our party which is dedicated to good housekeeping — indeed, I would not mind betting that if Mr. Gladstone were alive today he would apply to join the Conservative Party ".

* William Gladstone Primary School ( Formerly St. Thomas ' and recently renamed as Rimrose Hope ) is a Primary School located in Seaforth, in which he was raised and educated.

* There is a Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa, Canada, which was renamed from Ann Street.

* There is a Gladstone statue at Glenalmond College, unveiled in 2010 which is located in Front Quad.

In fiction, Gladstone features prominently in the history of the fantasy Bartimaeus trilogy, in which the British government is run by magicians.

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.

Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included the Tory, Peelite and Liberal William E. Gladstone, who held the office four times between 1868 and 1894.

In February 1851 the government allowed Gladstone to visit the prisons where they were held and he deplored their condition.

( Gemstone, whose key editorial staff-John Clark, Gary Leach and Susan Daigle-Leach-previously worked for Gladstone, also subsequently gained the rights to Disney comics, a license formerly held by Gladstone.

Weather permitting, this event is usually held in the spacious Gladstone Park.

Peapack and Gladstone was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 28, 1912, from portions of Bedminster Township, subject to the results of a referendum held on April 23, 1912.

They held two meetings, one in March 1888 and a second more significant meeting at Gladstone ’ s home in Hawarden on 18 – 19 December 1889.

In February 1886 he returned to the government as Vice-President of the Committee on Education under Gladstone, a post he held until the government fell in July of the same year.

After serving as private secretary to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, from July 1872 to August 1873 he became a junior Lord of the Treasury, and held office until the resignation of the ministry.

In 1949, the first annual Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race was held starting in Moreton Bay.

Campbell-Bannerman held firmly to the Liberal principles of Richard Cobden and William Ewart Gladstone.

He became Prime Minister in June 1885 when the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone resigned, and he held the office until January 1886.

He held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1868 and 1873 and as Home Secretary between 1873 and 1874.

He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him ; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London had led deputations to the Duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripen and Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade ; and he was universally recognised as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement.

At first a Liberal, he held minor office in the second administration of William Ewart Gladstone but later joined the Conservative Party and served from 1889 to 1892 as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

When Gladstone returned to power in 1880 he appointed Ripon Viceroy of India, an office he held until 1884.

He served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies and held the offices of Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under William Ewart Gladstone before becoming Leader of the Opposition.

He had previously represented Oxford in the House of Commons and later held office as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) in the Liberal administrations of Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone as well as in the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen.

In 1871, William Ewart Gladstone stated at a meeting held in Aberdeen that if Ireland was to be granted home rule, then the same should apply to Scotland.

His eldest son, the fifth Earl, was a Liberal politician and held office under Lord Russell and William Ewart Gladstone as Lord Steward of the Household.

Lord Listowel later held minor office in the second administration of William Ewart Gladstone.

His son, the third Baron, held junior positions in the first two Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone.

His son, the second Baron, held office as Treasurer of the Household from 1872 to 1874 in the first Liberal administration of William Ewart Gladstone.

Gladstone is located within the federal electoral division of Flynn, a marginal seat currently held by the Liberal National Party of Queensland's Ken O ' Dowd in Federal elections, and the state electoral district of Gladstone, held by independent Liz Cunningham, a mayor of the former Calliope Shire Council ( which has subsequently been incorporated into Gladstone Regional Council ).