The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3), by John Morley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Author: John Morley Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21091] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE *** Produced by Paul Murray, Thomas Strong and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Pg ii] Click for list of Illustrations [Pg iii] THE LIFE OF WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE BY JOHN MORLEY IN THREE VOLUMES—VOL. I (1809-1859) TORONTO GEORGE N. MORANG & COMPANY, LIMITED [Pg iv]1903 COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903. Reprinted October, November, 1903. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. [Pg v]Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. TO THE ELECTORS OF THE MONTROSE BURGHS I BEG LEAVE TO INSCRIBE THIS BOOK IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THE CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH THEY HAVE HONOURED ME [Pg vi] [Pg vii]NOTE The material on which this biography is founded consists mainly, of course, of the papers collected at Hawarden.