Prime Minister's Son : Stephen Gladstone, Rector of Hawarden.

By:

Aitken, Ros

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781908258502

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prime Minister's SonDDC classification:

941.081092

LOC classification:

BX5199.G58 -- .A58 2012eb

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Contents:

Front cover -- Reviews -- Title pages -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Currency Equivalents -- Family trees -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Birth, early childhood and prep school, 1844-1856 -- Chapter 2: Eton, 1856-1862 -- Chapter 3: Christ Church, Cumbrae and Cuddesdon: Preparation for the Priesthood, 1862-1868 -- Chapter 4: Lambeth, 1868-1872 -- Chapter 5: The appointment to Hawarden, 1872 -- Chapter 6: Hawarden: The patterns are set, 1872-1876 -- Chapter 7: Hawarden: Relapse and Recovery, 1876-1880 -- Chapter 8: Hawarden: Dreams Destroyed, 1881-1884 -- Chapter 9: Hawarden: Happy families, 1884-1886 -- Chapter 10: Hawarden: Changes and challenges -- Chapter 11: Hawarden: Future Uncertain, 1890-1894 -- Chapter 12: Hawarden: Through bitter betrayal to temporary contentment, 1894-1895 -- Chapter 13: Hawarden: Personal and political crises, 1895-1900 -- Chapter 14: Hawarden, 1900-1904 -- Chapter 15: Barrowby: A new life and a potential Hawarden -- Chapter 16: Barrowby: Outer strength, private frailty, 1906-1911 -- Chapter 17: Manley Hall: A drawing-down of blinds, 1911-1920 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author biography -- Back cover.

Summary: This newly researched biography presents an intimate picture of Stephen Gladstone, the previously ignored son of Prime Minister William Gladstone, whose life was tormented by the expectations and interference of his father, his mother Catherine and his sister Mary. This wide-ranging book sets his fascinating character, caught between duty and self-doubt,firmly in its historical context, tracing his progress through the horrors of a nineteenth-century prep school, his thirty-two years as the reluctant and restless Rector of Hawarden, his mysteriously acquired final incumbency and the desolating personal effects of the First World War.

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This newly researched biography presents an intimate picture of Stephen Gladstone, the previously ignored son of Prime Minister William Gladstone, whose life was tormented by the expectations and interference of his father, his mother Catherine and his sister Mary. This wide-ranging book sets his fascinating character, caught between duty and self-doubt,firmly in its historical context, tracing his progress through the horrors of a nineteenth-century prep school, his thirty-two years as the reluctant and restless Rector of Hawarden, his mysteriously acquired final incumbency and the desolating personal effects of the First World War.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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