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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

This Sceptred Isle - 187/216

Gladstone's ambitions as Chancellor are thwarted by the onset of the Crimean War.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02535/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=1 - William Ewart Gladstone - Heinrich Müller


http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&role=sit&rNo=14 - Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02541/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&wPage=1&role=sit&rNo=39 - Alfred Edward Emslie

1854 - Crimean War

1833 - Slavery abolished throughout the Empire

1852 - Gladstone is Chancellor

Disraeli lived at No 11 Downing Street.

Disraeli doesn't give Gladstone the Chancellor's robe.

1809 -  Gladstone was born

1852 - Gladstone destroys the budget speech of Disraeli.