Carnegie's charm aided by his great wealth meant that he had many British friends, including Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

William Ewart GladstoneFour-time Prime Minister

However, the government resisted calls for the nationalisation of the network ( first proposed by William Ewart Gladstone as early as the 1830s ).

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 ).

The leading Peelite was William Ewart Gladstone, who was a reforming Chancellor of the Exchequer in most of these governments.

* William Ewart Gladstone 1865 – 1875

* William Ewart Gladstone 1880 – 1894

Their policies of low public expenditure and low taxation were adopted by William Ewart Gladstone when he became chancellor of the exchequer and later prime minister.

Fox and William Ewart Gladstone.

Constitutional nationalism enjoyed its greatest success in the 1880s and 1890s when the Irish Parliamentary Party under Charles Stewart Parnell succeeded in having two Home Rule bills introduced by the Liberal government of William Ewart Gladstone, though both failed.

In 1862 he became Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and in 1868, after losing his seat at Merthyr Tydfil, but being re-elected for Renfrewshire, he was made Home Secretary by William Ewart Gladstone.

Parliament appointed a committee, led by William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10, 000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone developed this new role further by projecting " images " of themselves to the public.

Examples include William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair.

In the 19th century, there were still British prime ministers who spoke with some regional features, such as William Ewart Gladstone.

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was accused by William Ewart Gladstone of undermining Britain's constitutional system, due to his lack of reference or consent from Parliament when purchasing the shares with funding from the Rothschilds.

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.

William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) was the Liberal counterpart to Disraeli, serving as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

These parties were led by many prominent statesmen including Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury.

; 1886: Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Liberal Party tries passing the First Irish Home Rule Bill, but the House of Commons rejects it.

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.

It grew out of the Whig Party in 1859, and William Gladstone carried the party through governments in the late 19th century.

William Gladstone

William E. Gladstone served as prime minister four times ( 1868 – 74, 1880 – 85, 1886, and 1892 – 94 ).

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.

" However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle of the Manchester School and William Gladstone.

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.

Perhaps the most dedicated patron of Severn's work in the 1830s was William Gladstone, who was drawn to Severn more for his reputation as a painter than as Keats's friend.

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

With the passing of the Crofters ' Act in 1886 the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone emancipated crofters from the rule of the landlords.

Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS ( 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919 ) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS ( 15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848 ) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary ( 1830 – 1834 ) and Prime Minister ( 1834 and 1835 – 1841 ).

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH, FRS ( 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871 )

William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong CB, FRS ( 26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900 ) was an effective Tyneside industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire.

Sir William Hunter McCrea FRS ( 13 December 1904, Dublin – 25 April 1999 ) was an English astronomer and mathematician.

Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS ( 12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907 ) was an English chemist best known for his discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine.

William Hyde Wollaston FRS ( 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828 ) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.

William Hudson ( engineer ) | William Hudson KBE FRS Commissioner Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority 1949-1967.

William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA ( 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765 ) was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as " probably ... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology ".

William Whewell FRS FGS, ( ; 24 May 1794 – 6 March 1866 ) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science.

William Prout FRS ( 15 January 1785 – 9 April 1850 ) was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian.

William Edward Forster PC, FRS ( 11 July 1818 – 6 April 1886 ) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.

William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS ( 3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942 ), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

William Hunter FRS ( 23 May 1718 – 30 March 1783 ) was a Scottish anatomist and physician.

William Jones, FRS ( 1675 – 3 July 1749 ) was a Welsh mathematician, most noted for his proposal for the use of the symbol π ( the Greek letter pi ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman FRS ( 6 November 1865 – 2 June 1926 ) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer.

* Graves Chamney Haughton ( 1817 – 27 ) FRS previously of Fort William College, Calcutta

William Kingdon Clifford FRS ( 4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879 ) was an English mathematician and philosopher.

William Thomson FRS, FRGS ( 11 February 1819 – 25 December 1890 ) was an English church leader, Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death.

William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG ( 15 April 1710 – 5 February 1790 ) was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical education in the English-speaking world.

John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS ( 9 August 1781 – 6 March 1833 ), known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician.