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unusual facts about William Gladstone



District Railway

On Saturday 1 July 1871, an opening banquet was attended by the Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was also a shareholder.

Liverpool Collegiate School

The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the Liverpool Collegiate Institution was opened by William Gladstone on 6 January 1843, originally as a fee-paying school for boys of middle-class parents and administered as three distinct organisations under a single headmaster.


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1892 vote of no confidence against the government of the Marquess of Salisbury

Sir Matthew White Ridley (Conservative MP for Blackpool) proposed, and William Gladstone seconded, the re-election of Arthur Peel who had been in office for the past eight years, and the proposal was unanimously agreed.

Stephen Glynne

Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet (1807–1874), Welsh Conservative politician, brother-in law of Prime Minister William Gladstone, and architectural antiquarian