William Ewart Gladstone

Of GF 's three brothers,:Granville George , who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's Foreign Secretary; William died young following an accident; and Freddy , who also became a politician, edited...

The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport...

Alfred Lyttelton delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers . Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...

Little is known about EL 's life before she met her famous husband. Her immediate family...

In the pamphlet Gladstone 's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this...