William Ewart Gladstone MP British Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone was born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford from where in he embarked on his political career He became Prime Minister in and then a further two times in and Whilst in power Gladstone brought in major reforms to Ireland and established a system of national education in England From Men of Mark a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate the Church in science literature and art the army navy law medicine etc Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper Conducted by G C Whitfield London