William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister Finish:none At the edge of the

At the edge of the race track

HJ Lawson and his wife at the start of the Emancipation Run

'City traind bands'

23rd August 1987

William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister Finish:none At the edge of theWilliam Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister, c1890. William Gladstone (1809 1898) 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 bought in major reforms to Ireland and established a system of national education in England. A lithograph from The Modern Portrait