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Because of his actions as Chancellor, Gladstone earned the reputation as the liberator of British trade and the working man's breakfast table, the man responsible for the emancipation of the popular press from "taxes upon knowledge" and for placing a duty on the succession of the estates of the rich. [67]
William Harcourt, successful promoter of 1894 reforms. The succession duty's taxation of the life interest in real property, as opposed to its full capital value, was seen to be unfair to heirs of different ages, as elder heirs effectively received a life interest that was lower in value than one received by a younger heir, even when they were shares in the same property.
Gladstonian liberalism is a political doctrine named after the British Victorian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone.Gladstonian liberalism consisted of limited government expenditure and low taxation whilst making sure government had balanced budgets and the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.
William Gladstone [a] 15 August 1892 – 2 March 1894 The Earl of Rosebery [b] 5 March 1894 – 21 June 1895 Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir William Vernon Harcourt [c] 18 August 1892 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury: Edward Marjoribanks [d] 18 August 1892 T. E. Ellis: 10 March 1894 Financial Secretary to the Treasury: Sir John ...
So, the 24/7 Wall St. list of the Most Infamous Family Estate Feuds is based as much on the notoriety of the cases as the size of the estates. ... cheated the other two, William and Frederick, out ...
To balance out a renewal of coercion, Gladstone believed that a new Land Act was needed, and the Cabinet decided in favour. [7] Gladstone wrote to the Chief Secretary for Ireland, William Edward Forster, on 10 January 1881 to enquire from him an assessment of Irish demands in order to discover "a definitive settlement" of the land question. [8]
Gladstone, William E. Midlothian Speeches 1879 with an Introduction by M. R. D. Foot, (New York: Humanities Press, 1971) online Guedalla, Philip , ed. Gladstone and Palmerston: Being the Correspondence of Lord Palmerston with Mr. Gladstone, 1851–1865 (1928)
Welsh devolution is the transfer of legislative powers for self-governance to Wales by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The current system of devolution began following the enactment of the Government of Wales Act 1998, with the responsibility of various devolved powers granted to the Welsh Government rather than being the responsibility of the Government of the United Kingdom.