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Authors: Roy Jenkins

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Tree-felling scene at Hawarden, probably in a mid-1880s autumn, although it was not until 1891, after thirty-three years of the pursuit, that Gladstone hung up his axe. Mrs Gladstone is looking unusually diva-like centre-stage. Willy Gladstone is sitting lugubriously on the trunk.

Arthur James Balfour, in whom Gladstone ‘simply delighted’ in the early 1870s and by whose attacks on him in the 1880s he was therefore much upset. (Picture by Richmond done in 1876 when Balfour was twenty-eight.)

The eighth Duke of Argyll, a close colleague of Gladstone’s for a quarter of a century until he resigned over Irish land in 1881.

The Cabinet in 1883 (a contrived picture): from left to right: Dodson, Kimberley, Hartington, Harcourt, Derby, Granville, Gladstone, Selborne, Carlingford, Dilke, Childers, Northbrook, Chamberlain, Spencer.

The Prince of Wales circa 1875 looks benignly self-indulgent.

The second Earl Granville, ‘a vital ball-bearing’ of three Gladstone governments.

The Edinburgh of the Midlothian Campaign.

Two Whigs:

Lord Hartington, later eighth Duke of Devonshire.

The Red (and fifth) Earl Spencer, but red in beard rather than in politics, who however remained faithful to Gladstone on Home
Rule.

Two Radicals:

Joseph Chamberlain, looking glossy and sharp.

Sir Charles Dilke, looking opulent and sad.

A Gladstone family group at Hawarden in the mid-1880s (see p. 462). Standing from left to right: Mrs Willy Gladstone, Willy Gladstone, Mary Gladstone, W.E.G.; seated: Henry Gladstone, Herbert Gladstone, Agnes (nee Gladstone) Wickham with child, Catherine Gladstone, Edward Wickham, Stephen Gladstone, Helen Gladstone.

Belabouring a wily Egyptian gentleman: an 1882
Punch
cartoon illustrating the incongruity of Gladstone in ‘the most civilian and almost parsonical of habits’ indulging in a rare burst of militarism.

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