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William Ewart Gladstone

2010-12-17T13:59:09Z

JulianGoll:

29 December 1809-19 May 1898. Prime Minister four times. Switched his political position during his career from supporting the [[Conservative Party]] (1834 - 1859) to supporting the [[Whigs]]/[[Liberal Party]] (1859 - 1898), whose party executive he became in 1867. Beside other positions, he was Commerce Secretary under conservative Prime Minister [[Robert Peel]], Chancellor of the Exchequer under conservative Prime Minister [[George Hamilton Gordon]] and Chancellor of the Exchequer under liberal Prime Minister [[Henry John Temple]]. Gladstone supported free trade (e.g. during the time of the [[Corn Law]] split of the Conservative Party, which influenced his change of ends), introduced secret voting ([[Ballot Act]] 1872) and supported the Irish [[Home rule movement|Home Rule Movement]]. After failing to introduce Home Rule due to a lack of support by the House of Lords, he resigned in 1894. The lack of support is considered to be influenced by Gladstone´s late intervention in Sudan, where general [[Charles George Gordon]], a celebrated folk hero in Britain, died trying to defeat the [[Mahdi Uprising]].

Gladstone researched on Homer´s works throughout his career and published different works on this topic. He died from cancer in 1898.

== Sources ==
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/william-ewart-gladstone

Bebbington, David William. ''William Ewart Gladstone: Faith & Politics in Victorian Britain''. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993.

Ramm, Agatha. ''William Ewart Gladstone''. Cardiff: GPC, 1989.

William Ewart Gladstone

2010-12-17T13:57:57Z

JulianGoll:

29 December 1809-19 May 1898. Prime Minister four times. Switched his political position during his career from supporting the [[Conservative Party]] (1834 - 1859) to supporting the [[Whigs]]/[[Liberal Party]] (1859 - 1898), whose party executive he became in 1867. Beside other positions, he was Commerce Secretary under conservative Prime Minister [[Robert Peel]], Chancellor of the Exchequer under conservative Prime Minister [[George Hamilton Gordon]] and Chancellor of the Exchequer under liberal Prime Minister [[Henry John Temple]]. Gladstone supported free trade (e.g. during the time of the [[Corn Law]] split of the Conservative Party, which influenced his change of ends), introduced secret voting ([[Ballot Act]] 1872) and supported the Irish [[Home rule movement|Home Rule Movement]]. After failing to introduce Home Rule due to a lack of support by the House of Lords, he resigned in 1894. The lack of support is considered to be influenced by Gladstone´s late intervention in Sudan, where general [[Charles George Gordon]], a celebrated folk hero in Britain, died trying to defeat the [[Mahdi Uprising]].

Gladstone researched on Homer´s works throughout his career and published different works on this topic. He died from cancer in 1898.

== Sources ==
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/william-ewart-gladstone

Ramm, Agatha. ''William Ewart Gladstone''. Cardiff: GPC, 1989.
Bebbington, David William. ''William Ewart Gladstone: Faith & Politics in Victorian Britain''. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.. 1993.

William Ewart Gladstone

2010-11-10T10:49:27Z

JulianGoll:

William Ewart Gladstone (29.12.1809-19.05.1898) was Prime Minister of the British Parliament four times. Beside other things, he introduced secret voting ([[Ballot Act]] 1872) and supported the [[Irish Home Rule Movement]]. After failing to introduce Home Rule due to a lack of support by the House of Lords, he resigned in 1894. Gladstone died from cancer in 1898.

== Sources ==
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/william-ewart-gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

2010-11-10T10:47:41Z

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William Ewart Gladstone (29.12.1809-19.05.1898) was Prime Minister of the British Parliament four times. Beside other things, he introduced secret voting ([[Ballot Act]] 1872) and supported the [[Irish Home Rule Movement]]. After failing to introduce Home Rule due to a lack of support by the House of Lords, he resigned in 1894. Gladstone died from cancer in 1898 [[File:William Ewart Gladstone 1893.jpg]]

== Sources ==
http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/prime-ministers-in-history/william-ewart-gladstone

File:William Ewart Gladstone 1893.jpg

2010-11-10T10:31:42Z

JulianGoll: "William Ewart Gladstone in 1893", owned by Getty Images, taken from Dominic Sandbrook´s article "How Britain needs a leader of Gladstone's stature now", <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1238410/How-Britain-needs-leader-Gladstones-stature-tax-

"William Ewart Gladstone in 1893", owned by Getty Images, taken from Dominic Sandbrook´s article "How Britain needs a leader of Gladstone's stature now",
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1238410/How-Britain-needs-leader-Gladstones-stature-tax-cutting-reformer-makes-Brown-Cameron-look-like-pygmies.html>

Ballot Act

2010-11-02T12:21:11Z

JulianGoll:

[[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduced the 1872 Ballot Act, which stated that elections for the British Parliament and municipal governments shall be done in secret and thus anonymously ( i.e. secret ballot) to reduce the effects of blackmailing, bribe and coercion on the votes. The original idea of secret voting had thus already been proposed by Lord Hartington in 1870. The General Election of 1880 is said to be the first election of Parliament which showed a significant difference, since landowners interests were no longer represented in the results of the election.

Before the introduction of the Ballot Act, landowners, politicians and employers used to influence voters by having representatives send to the polling stations to check their leaseholders and dependants vote. Bribe was common and many voters received money and grants from different sides to profit from political competition (depicted for example in [[Charles Dickens]] ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'', Chapter XII, p.158). [[The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act]] of 1883 made influences on the vote finally criminal and limited the amount of money which was to be spend on electoral matters.

The standardized and sealed ballot used for the new voting procedures was first used in Australia in 1856 and was thus called ''Australian ballot''.

== Sources ==

Marriott, John Arthur Ransome. ''England since Waterloo''. N.p.: N.p., 1913.

Pearce, Robert. ''Government and reform 1815-1918''. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50741/Ballot-Act

Ballot Act

2010-11-02T12:16:03Z

JulianGoll:

[[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduced the 1872 Ballot Act, which stated that elections for the British Parliament and municipal governments shall be done in secret and thus anonymously ( i.e. secret ballot) to reduce the effects of blackmailing, bribe and coercion on the votes. The original idea of secret voting had thus already been proposed by Lord Hartington in 1870. The General Election of 1880 is said to be the first election of Parliament which showed a significant difference, since landowners interests were no longer represented in the results of the election.

Before the introduction of the Ballot Act, landowners, politicians and employers used to influence voters by having representatives send to the polling stations to check their leaseholders and dependants vote. Bribe was common and many voters received money and grants from different sides to profit from political competition (depicted for example in [[Charles Dickens]] ''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'', Chapter XII, p.158). [[The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act]] of 1883 made influences on the vote finally criminal and limited the amount of money which was to be spend on electoral matters.

The standardized and sealed ballot used for the new voting procedures was first used in Australia in 1856 and was thus called ''Australian ballot''.

== Sources ==

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50741/Ballot-Act

Marriott, John Arthur Ransome. ''England since Waterloo''. N.p.:N.p.,1913.

Ballot Act

2010-11-02T12:12:15Z

JulianGoll:

Ballot Act

2010-11-02T12:11:40Z

JulianGoll:

[[William Ewart Gladstone]] introduced the 1872 Ballot Act, which stated that elections for the British Parliament and municipal governments shall be done in secret and thus anonymously ( i.e. secret ballot) to reduce the effects of blackmailing, bribe and coercion on the votes. The original idea of secret voting had thus already been proposed by Lord Hartington in 1870. The General Election of 1880 is said to be the first election of Parliament which showed a significant difference, since landowners interests were no longer represented in the results of the election.

Before the introduction of the Ballot Act, landowners, politicians and employers used to influence voters by having representatives send to the polling stations to check their leaseholders and dependants vote. Bribe was common and many voters received money and grants from different sides to profit from political competition (depicted for example in [[Charles Dickens]] The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Chapter XII, p.158). [[The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act]] of 1883 made influences on the vote finally criminal and limited the amount of money which was to be spend on electoral matters.

The standardized and sealed ballot used for the new voting procedures was first used in Australia in 1856 and was thus called ''Australian ballot''.