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| | PBS : Queen Victoria : Low Graphics Site : The Changing Empire : Gladstone |
 | | While their own exchanges of retorts were memorable, they can best be characterized by the appeal of Viscount Palmerston, when prime minister, to his chief point-man on the House of Commons floor: "We need a great Gun to reply to Disraeli. |
 | | Gladstone was austere, obsessed by High Church theology and disputation, and was obsessed (despite marriage and many children) by low--but pretty--ladies of the evening, whom he would stalk, confront, and urge to reform their ways, afterwards returning home in a frisson of excitement to secretly whip himself. |
 | | Still, Gladstone was returned to office in 1886 and again in 1892, his last residence at 10 Downing Street abbreviated the next year when the House of Lords rejected a Home Rule Bill he had struggled to carry through the Commons, and he resigned. |
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