Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Church Spakenburg Mead and White

Mead and White

Plate 6 from Bright's Medical Reports: Diseases of the brain and Nervous System part 1 by Richard Bright (London

view of Cold Bath Fields House of Correction

Plate 3 figure 20 from TraitÚ de l ÚlectricitÚ et du magnÚtisme

Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Church Spakenburg Mead and White'Mr Gladstone reading the lessons in Hawarden Church', late 19th century. William Ewart Gladstone MP (1809 1898), British Liberal Prime Minister, was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford from where in 1832 he embarked on his political career. He became Prime Minister in 1868, and then a further two times in 1880 and 1886. Whilst in power Gladstone brought in major reforms to Ireland and established a system of national education in England. He