William Ewart Gladstone
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Mr. Gladstone · Gladstone · that underground fellow · the old man
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman identified as the leader of the strenuous ecclesiastical opposition to the Divorce Act of 1857.
Gladstone, divorce was legalised, and divorced persons were left absolutely free to marry.
Law in a Free State
British statesman referenced by name; the narrator recently heard him speak, and Lord Brownmead denounces him bitterly.
My last admission was followed by a series of grunts at intervals' of about half a minute, and at last with a zeal and earnestness which he had not yet exhibited, and in a louder key than heretofore, Lord Brownmead turned upon me with this query: