" He " initiated a determined programme of cost and manpower reductions, fully backed by the Prime Minister, Gladstone described him as ' a man likely to scan with a rigid eye the civil expenses of the Naval Service '.

By May £ 6, 870, 000 was needed to finance the war and so Gladstone introduced another budget on 8 May.

war: William Ewart 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.

Bright scornfully dismissed it as ' a jobbers ' war ,' war on behalf of a privileged class of capitalists, and resigned from the Gladstone cabinet.

The British government of William Gladstone was conciliatory as it realised that any further action would require substantial troop reinforcements, and it was likely that the war would be costly, messy and protracted.

Fifteen years after the war, under the reign of Edward VII ( who assumed the throne after Queen Victoria abdicated due to her husband Prince Albert's death ) and the prime ministership of Gladstone, the United Kingdom maintains through Traveller's discovery a monopoly on the use of anti-ice.

Gladstone meets Traveller personally and orders him forthwith to prepare anti-ice weapons for use to end the war.

The party further lost cohesion with some members including Gladstone, Graham and Herbert accepted cabinet posts in the new government led by Viscount Palmerston only to resign a few weeks later when the Government agreed to hold a commission on the conduct of the recent war.

Following the war and his return to Britain, Chelmsford sought an audience with the Prime Minister, but Gladstone refused to meet with him – a very public slight and a clear sign of official disapproval.

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 ..."

Two especially important figures in this period of British history are the prime ministers Gladstone and Disraeli, whose contrasting views changed the course of history.

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.

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

Gladstone is said to have been the most powerful magician to ever become Prime Minister, and though he is not included as a character, several objects of his are central plot points.

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

They are considered the parents of Gladstone Gander ; although his wife's and son's luck does not include him.

Don Rosa, William Van Horn, and Pat Block are among the modern Disney comics artists who got their start at Gladstone.

Emergency medical services are provided by the non-profit, all volunteer Peapack Gladstone First Aid Squad, known as " 51 Rescue ", based in its newly renovated St. Lukes Avenue location.

The census-designated places of St. Peter and Taycheedah and the unincorporated communities of Bergen Beach, Gladstone Beach, Hopokoekau Beach, Linden Beach, Minawa Beach, Peebles, Silica, and Welling Beach are located in the town.

In 1883 he advised Mary Gladstone " that the Essays are really flashy and superficial.

Caramilk bars are produced at one location, the company's Gladstone Chocolate Factory in Toronto.

Each of the lives is very different from the others, although there are common threads-for example the recurrent appearance of William Ewart Gladstone and Arthur Hugh Clough.

Gladstone replied that " I can assure you that he has been little absent of late fro mine, that my feelings towards him are entirely unaltered by any of the occurrences of the last three years and that I have never felt separated from him in spirit.

Many of Glasgow's public statues are situated around the square and include the only known equestrian statues of a young Queen Victoria and her consort Prince Albert, poets Robert Burns and Thomas Campbell, inventor James Watt, chemist Thomas Graham, generals Sir John Moore, Lord Clyde and politicians William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Peel and James Oswald

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.

There are two andesite dykes intruded across Gladstone Street.

Many bars and clubs throughout Toronto are now gay-friendly ; establishments such as the Drake Hotel and the Gladstone Hotel, although outside of Toronto's traditional gay village and not technically gay bars per se, are popular destinations for young gay and lesbian club-goers.

The rambling and climbing shrubs he had planted as part of the design of the facades that Mary Gladstone described in her memoirs are no longer there.

Ships named HMAS Gladstone are entitled to carry two battle honours:

" Hipster " cafés, lounges, restaurants, condominiums, shops, and art galleries are cropping up, and former " dive " hotels such as the Drake and the Gladstone have recently been purchased and renovated in a trendy manner.

Boyne Island and Tannum Sands are not part of the Gladstone township but are part of the Gladstone region and formerly part of the Calliope Shire.

Gladstone, however, saw the issue in moral terms, for Bulgarian Christians had been massacred by the Turks and Gladstone therefore believed it was immoral to support the Ottoman Empire.

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 1927, during a court case over published claims that he had had improper relationships with some of these women, the jury unanimously found that the evidence " completely vindicated the high moral character of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone ".

Gladstone wrote to Cobden: "... the great aim — the moral and political significance of the act, and its probable and desired fruit in binding the two countries together by interest and affection.

The government's policy was subsequently strongly attacked in the Commons on high moral grounds by Richard Cobden and Gladstone during a censure debate.

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.

... 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 ".

Gladstone altered his approach to religious problems, which always held first place in his mind.

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.