William Ewart Gladstone
Born December 29, in 1809, British Prime Minister William Gladstone, leader of the Liberal Party, served four terms during the reign of Queen Victoria. He helped to define the Liberal Party by working on reforms to improve the lives of the working class and fighting for Irish home rule. He was the rival of Conservative Benjamin Disraeli, to whom he once lost, then regained, the post of prime minister.
Hulton Deutsch
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