William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman and prime minister. Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents. He was educated at Eto
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British statesman and prime minister. Gladstone was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents. He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. After a tour of Europe, he came back to England and was elected a Member of Parliament for the Tory Party. He held ministerial positions under Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston and Lord Russell. In 1868 he became Prime Minister, passing acts on the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting at elections. He came back in 1880 for a second term notable for the Third Reform Act and crises in both Ireland and Egypt. In his third term in 1886, he proposed home rule for Ireland, but was defeated in the Commons and again during his fourth term, in 1892, when his bill was defeated in the House of Lords. He left office for the last time in March 1894, aged 84, the oldest Prime Minister in the UK. He died of heart failure in 1898 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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