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Advertisement duty was abolished in 1853, followed by newspaper stamp duty in 1855. The paper duty was removed in 1861. [ 33 ] William Gladstone , as Chancellor of the Exchequer, repealed the paper duties, but only after a false start in 1860, when the House of Lords rejected his bill, against conventions on financial issues.
Gladstone's dividing line set up in 1853 had been abolished in 1858 but Gladstone revived it, with lower incomes to pay 6½d. instead of 9d. For the first half of the year, the lower incomes paid 8d. and the higher incomes paid 13d. in income tax.
In the Finance Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), estate duty replaced probate duty, account duty, certain additional succession duties, and the 1889 estate duty. [ 49 ] [ b ] It was collected in addition to the legacy duty and succession duty which still remained in effect.
Gladstone as a child in 1887 with his famous grandfather. Gladstone was born on 14 July 1885. [3] His father, William Henry Gladstone (1840–1891), was the eldest son of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine, and his mother was the Hon. Gertrude Gladstone, daughter of Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre.
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Sir John Gladstone, 4th Bt. (1855–1945) William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) William Henry Gladstone (1840–1891) Will Gladstone (1885–1915) Stephen Gladstone (1844–1920) Sir Albert Gladstone 5th Bt. (1886–1967) Sir Charles Gladstone 6th Bt. (1888–1968) Sir William Gladstone, 7th Bt. (1925–2018) Sir Charles Gladstone, 8th Bt. (b ...
William Gladstone frequently consulted Glynne on ecclesiastical matters, including, for example the appointment of a Welsh-speaking bishop, Joshua Hughes, to the diocese of St Asaph in 1870. [11] Gladstone later wrote that Glynne's memory "was on the whole decidedly the most remarkable known to me of the generation and country".
Gladstone's Library, known until 2010 as St Deiniol's Library (Welsh: Llyfrgell Deiniol Sant), is a residential library in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK. [1] Gladstone's Library is Britain's only Prime Ministerial Library and serves as the national memorial to William Ewart Gladstone. [2]