Gladstone 1809-1874

1809-1874

By: H. C. G. Matthew

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Paperback | 18 February 1988

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William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was both the most characteristic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times Prime Minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. His private life was a most curious blend of happiness and temptation. His Christian faith held the extremes of his character in sufficient harmony to avoid disintegration and to produce one of the most powerful political personalities in British history. The book describes Gladstone's early years as a Tory, the great transformation of his political position in the 1840s, his lengthy period as Chancellor of the Exchequer with its long-lasting implications for British financial policy, and his spectacular first administration from 1868 to 1874. It sets in context the remarkable private drama of sexual temptation and moral crisis which from the 1840s onwards accompanied these public developments. The account ends in December 1874, with Gladstone's formal retirement from leadership of the Liberal Party - the move which he intended as his farewell to party politics. Gladstone was perhaps the most influential political leader of modern Britain, and this book is a major contribution to our understanding of his character, his life, and his role in the Victorian political arena.

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`Nicely printed, excellent value, indispensable.' Observer For any aficionado of high politics - and low life - of the nineteenth century, this book is a must.' David Cannadine, Observer `accessible...compact and affordable' Sunday Times `A most welcome paperback, making the valuable introductions to the Diaries available to undergraduates in a rounded-off form.' Dr Bruce P. Lenman, St Andrews University `Matthew's book is already acknowledged as a masterpiece' C. M. Williams, University of Wales C.C. `fine biography' Times Literary Supplement 'Dr. Matthew ... has most usefully given us what we must hope is an interim report. As such, it is indispensable, while also being deeply original at a high intellectual level ... the work has a unity which is not just biographical, but arises from uncluttered meditation on the nature of leadership in a modern society.' John Vincent, University of Bristol, Nineteenth-Century Prose, Special Issue, Volume XIX, Number 3

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Preface	p. vii
Prologue	p. 1
Liverpool, Eton, and Oxford	p. 3
Gladstonian Conservatism: from Oxford to Westminster	p. 24
Church, State, and Free Trade: the Public Crisis of the 1840s	p. 59
Religion, Family, and Sex: the Private Crisis of the 1840s	p. 87
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Free Trade, Budgets, and Franchise Reform	p. 103
Travel, Family, and Affairs in the 1860s	p. 149
the First Government: Ireland, Education, and External Policy	p. 168
the First Government: Distintegration and Downfall	p. 205
a Prime Minister's Private Life	p. 231
References	p. 249
Further Reading	p. 256
Brief Chronology, 1809-1874	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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