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J. Ewing Ritchie. The Real Gladstone: An Anecdotal Biography
The Real Gladstone: An Anecdotal Biography
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. BIRTH AND SCHOOLDAYS
CHAPTER II. GLADSTONE AT OXFORD
CHAPTER III. ENTERS PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER IV. M.P. FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER V. MR. GLADSTONE’S ECCLESIASTICAL OPINIONS
CHAPTER VI. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE DIVORCE BILL
CHAPTER VII. POLITICS AGAIN
CHAPTER VIII. POLITICS AND THE IRISH CHURCH
CHAPTER IX. EDUCATION AND IRELAND
CHAPTER X. IRELAND UNDER MR. FORSTER
CHAPTER XI. HOME RULE
CHAPTER XII. MR. GLADSTONE’S SPEECHES
CHAPTER XIII. MR. GLADSTONE’S PUBLICATIONS
CHAPTER XIV. ANECDOTAL AND CHARACTERISTIC
CHAPTER XV. MR. GLADSTONE’S LETTERS
CHAPTER XVI. MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
CHAPTER XVII. AT HOME
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J. Ewing Ritchie
Published by Good Press, 2021
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‘My first acquaintance with Gladstone,’ Martin Tupper writes, ‘was a memorable event. It was at that time not so common a thing for undergraduates to go to the Communion at Christ Church Cathedral, that holy celebration being supposed to be for the particular benefit of Deans and Canons and Masters of Arts; so when two undergraduates went out of the chancel together after Communion, which they had both attended, it is small wonder that they addressed each other genially, in defiance of Oxford etiquette, nor that a friendship so well begun has continued to this hour.’ He testifies how Gladstone was the foremost man—warm-hearted, earnest, hard working, and religious, and had a following even in his teens.
The following anecdote is amusing. Tupper writes: ‘I had the honour at Christ Church of being prize-taker of Dr. Benton’s theological essay, “The Reconciliation of Matthew and John,” when Gladstone, who had also contested it, stood second, and when Dr. Benton had me before him to give me the twenty-five pounds’ worth of books, he requested me to allow Mr. Gladstone to have five pounds’ worth, as he was so good a second.’ Alas! Mr. Tupper in after-life was led to think that the man to whom at one time he looked up, had deviated from the proper path. In his ‘Three Hundred Sonnets,’ he kindly undertook, in the reference to Gladstone, to warn the public to
