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Authors: Roy Jenkins

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The Oxford, and in particular the Christ Church (on the left, Merton College on the right) at which Gladstone arrived in 1828.

Fasque, the fine Kincardineshire mansion which John Gladstone acquired in 1829, when it was twenty years old, and in which William Gladstone spent many autumns in his twenties and thirties.

Hawarden, Flintshire, older but much remodelled at about the time of the creation of Fasque. Gladstone married into the Hawarden estate in 1839 and increasingly made it his home for the remaining fifty-eight years of his life.

Catherine Gladstone (formerly Glynne) painted by F. R. Say around the time of her marriage in 1839.

Gladstone (second from left) as the new MP for Newark seated alongside his elder brother, Thomas (third from left), in one of the last (1834) pictures of the old House of Commons, which was destroyed by fire within a few months.

Gladstone as a young man, a possibly flattering portrait done in 1838 by William Bradley

The founder of the fortune and the dynasty, and by then the hard laird of Fasque: Sir John Gladstone, painted by Bradley about the time of his 1846 baronetcy.

The Tory deities of Gladstone’s early political years. Sir Robert Peel towers over the Duke of Wellington in this 1844 drawing by Winterhalter.

The delicate features of religious intensity:

John Keble

John Henry Newman, later Cardinal

James Hope Scott

Two prelates, also of roughly Gladstone’s generation at Oxford who, in widely differing ways, were more worldly.

Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Oxford and Winchester.

Henry Manning, Anglican Archdeacon of Chichester, later (but only fourteen years so) Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, and then after another ten years, Cardinal.

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