Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Henry Fawcett
William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Augusta Gregory | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Edith Lyttelton | Little is known about EL
's life before she met her famous husband. An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre
at Churchill College
, Cambridge, may provide more information. |
| Education | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Lyttelton | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Queen Victoria | After Benjamin Disraeli
first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone
; Victoria found... |
| Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
| Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913. 328-9 |
| Friends, Associates | Gertrude Bell | Her closest friend at Oxford was Mary Talbot
, niece of William Gladstone
. Other friends included Edith Langridge
and Janet Hogarth
, sister of archaeologist David Hogarth
. Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, . 22 |
| Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
Timeline
18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...
National or international item
18 August 1823
A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society
was undertaking among slaves.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
85
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.
9 August 1844: The Regulation of Railways Act (otherwise...
National or international item
9 August 1844
The Regulation of Railways Act (otherwise known as Gladstone
's Act) was passed.
Hoole, Ken et al. Rail 150: The Stockton and Darlington Railway and What Followed. Eyre Methuen, 1975.
59
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
37
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
49-50, 74
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
National or international item
1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
Beaver, Patrick. The Crystal Palace 1851-1936: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise. Hugh Evelyn, 1970.
5, 11, 13
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
Building item
October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
19
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
1-2
April 1862: The Senate of the University of London voted...
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April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
62
3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...
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3 December 1868
Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone
, a Liberal
, formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
National or international item
26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
“Gladstone and Ireland 1868-74”. A Web of English History: The Peel Web: Irish Affairs.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1870: An Irish Land Act was passed; although it...
National or international item
1870
An Irish Land Act was passed; although it had little immediate material effect, the act undermined traditional conceptions of land ownership in Ireland.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
23
February 1870: Gladstone agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire...
National or international item
February 1870
Gladstone
agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire Commission
in response to the British Association for the Advancement of Science
's campaign for formal enquiry into national provisions for scientific pursuits.
Morrell, J. B. “The Patronage of Mid-Victorian Science in the University of Edinburgh”. The Patronage of Science in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gerard L’Estrange Turner, Noordhoff International, 1976, pp. 53-93.
57-8
20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...
National or international item
20 February 1874
Conservative
leader Benjamin Disraeli
formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone
's Liberal
government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
April 1876: The British Women's Temperance Association...
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April 1876
The British Women's Temperance Association
was founded at the national convention of the British Independent Order of the Good Templars
in Newcastle.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
184
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. “’Changes Are Dangerous’: Women and Temperance in Victorian England”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 193-15.
204-6
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
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23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
May 1881: A Lords' enquiry was called into allegations...
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May 1881
A Lords' enquiry was called into allegations of diplomatic complicity in the white slave trade of British women on the continent.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
88-90
1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
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1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
195-7
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
102
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
125
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
143
“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.
March 1882: The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between...
National or international item
March 1882
The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between Irish Home Rulers, led by Charles Stewart Parnell
, and Gladstone
's government; the agreement extended rent protection to Irish leaseholders, while Parnell agreed to cooperate with the Liberal...
Texts
Gladstone, William Ewart. "Robert Elsmere" and the Battle of Belief. Peter Paul and Brother, 1888.