Ideologies / Classical Liberal / William Gladstone
§ The minds · 1809–1898 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister
William Gladstone
The Grand Old Man
Free trade, retrenchment, and reform.
Economic+50
SocialistMarket
Governance−42
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−15
TraditionalProgressive
The dominant Liberal of Victorian Britain, whose creed of free trade, fiscal prudence and steady reform defined 19th-century liberalism in power.
social
Earnest Christian moralist; reformist but personally austere.
economic
Apostle of free trade, balanced budgets and low taxation.
governance
Expanded the franchise and curbed privilege; liberty through reform.
Notable for
- Four times prime minister
- Free-trade budgets
- Expanded the franchise
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