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Gladstone and claimed
Gladstone claimed that this decree had placed British Catholics in a dilemma over their loyalty to the Crown and their loyalty to the Pope.
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 ".
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 ".
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 ".
During his last period in office, in 1881, William Ewart Gladstone claimed residence in numbers 10, 11 and 12 for himself and his family.
Salisbury further claimed that Gladstone adopted reform as a " cry " to deflect attention from his foreign and economic policies at the next election.
He claimed that the real site of Queirós's New Jerusalem was near Gladstone in Queensland.
A spokesman from the Gladstone Fish Markets claimed that diseased fish were still being caught in large numbers in November 2011.

Gladstone and idea
Like Peel, Gladstone dismissed the idea of borrowing to cover the deficit.
Gladstone on the other hand saying he was prepared to go ‘ rather further ’ than the idea of a Central Board.
On 13 February, Salisbury rejected MacColl's idea that he should meet Gladstone, as he believed the meeting would be found out and that Gladstone had no genuine desire to negotiate.
A few days later Wrottesley met with Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, but was unable to win him over to the idea.

Gladstone and is
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.
( Gladstone is seated in the centre ; Rosebery, a future Prime Minister, is sitting on the carpet in front.
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.
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 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.

Gladstone and what
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 ).
When an unemployed miner ( Daniel Jones ) wrote to him to complain of his unemployment and low wages, Gladstone gave what H. C. G. Matthew has called " the classic mid-Victorian reply " on 20 October 1869:
Gladstone also ( on 29 November ) criticised what he saw as the Conservative government's profligate spending:
When questioned in the Commons on what his government would do about unemployment by the Conservative MP Colonel Howard Vincent on 1 September 1893, Gladstone replied:
The Liberal statesman Lord Rosebery commented on what Gladstone would make of this budget:
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.
The British government of William Ewart Gladstone had been unwilling to become bemired in a distant war, which required substantial troop reinforcement and expense, for what was at the time perceived to be a minimal return.
The Liberals regained power on 1 February, their leader Gladstone-influenced by the status of Norway, which at the time was self-governing but under the Swedish Crown-moving towards Home Rule, which Gladstone ’ s son Herbert revealed publicly under what became known as the " flying of the Hawarden Kite ".
In Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel Mysteries, the characters, on a couple of occasions, briefly discuss Charles Stewart Parnell, particularly in relation to Gladstone: " Dr. Stenerson had a high opinion of Parnell, but if Gladstone was so opposed to him, he must know what he was about with apologies to the host, Mr. Nagel, who couldn't forgive Gladstone for being an honourable man ".
This attempt to undermine and outflank the Conservatives, which would prove to be successful, formed what became known as the " Gladstone – MacDonald pact ".
The Conservative boroughs with populations less than 25, 000 ( a majority of the boroughs in Parliament ) would be very much worse off under Disraeli's scheme than the Liberal Reform Bill of the previous year: " But if I assented to this scheme, now that I know what its effect will be, I could not look in the face those whom last year I urged to resist Mr Gladstone.
Whereas Social Statics had been the work of a radical democrat who believed in votes for women ( and even for children ) and in the nationalization of the land to break the power of the aristocracy, by the 1880s he had become a staunch opponent of female suffrage and made common cause with the landowners of the Liberty and Property Defence League against what they saw as the drift towards ' socialism ' of elements ( such as Sir William Harcourt ) within the administration of William Ewart Gladstone – largely against the opinions of Gladstone himself.
In The Man versus the State ( 1884 ), he attacked Gladstone and the Liberal party for losing its proper mission ( they should be defending personal liberty, he said ) and instead promoting paternalist social legislation ( what Gladstone himself called " Construction " – an element in the modern Liberal party that he opposed ).
Gladstone hoped ' that some part of what Hallam has written may be [...] put into a more durable form [...] his letters I think are worthy of permanent preservation.
Gladstone had become personally committed to the granting of Irish home rule in 1885, a fact revealed ( possibly accidentally ) in what became known as the Hawarden Kite.
The leader of the British opposition, William Ewart Gladstone, wrote a booklet denouncing what he called " the Bulgarian Horrors ", and calling upon Britain to withdraw its support for Turkey.
In a letter addressed to me in 1888, Mr. Gladstone, whom I had asked in what sense he understood the existence of a spiritual continuity between the ancient Catholic Church and the existing Church of England, replied, In the Elizabethan interval, and before Anglicanism had a recognised existence as a form of thought, I should look for the spiritual continuity in men like Bernard Gilpin, as, before the Reformation, mainly in men like Colet.
He had what William Ewart Gladstone, in a review of the Memoirs published in 1891, described as an " enthusiasm of humanity ," and he left his fortune to be used for the promotion of philanthropic work.

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