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Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

1854 - 1930

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Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. Appointed whip in 1899, Gladstone was an innovator who provided a long-term strategy, kept the party from splitting over the Second Boer War, introduced more modern constituency structures; and encouraged working-class candidates. In secret meetings with Labour leaders in 1903 he forged the Gladstone–MacDonald pact. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone is the 17,249th most popular politician (up from 17,609th in 2024), the 5,489th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,918th in 2019) and the 631st most popular British Politician.

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Among politicians, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ranks 17,249 out of 19,576. Before him are Patricia Roberts Harris, Erkki Liikanen, Mamuka Bakhtadze, Jim Webb, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, and Malcolm MacDonald. After him are Hiroshi Abe, Jose W. Diokno, Aleksandras Abišala, Richard Mulcahy, Maksim Tarasov, and Ted Lindsay.

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Among people born in 1854, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ranks 123. Before him are Gottlieb Haberlandt, Rafael López Gutiérrez, Hjalmar Mellin, Arthur Barclay, Francis Marion Crawford, and Annie Lorrain Smith. After him are Birt Acres, George Whitefield Chadwick, and Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Among people deceased in 1930, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ranks 137. Before him are Alfred John Keene, Ivan Yakovlev, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Aston Webb, Johnny Douglas, and Christine Ladd-Franklin. After him are Laura Muntz Lyall, Gauhar Jaan, Robert Bridges, and Emily Ford.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ranks 5,490 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Robertson Bowers (1883), Claude Buckenham (1876), Bartholomew Gosnold (1572), Malcolm MacDonald (1901), and Nora Swinburne (1902). After him are Clive Brook (1887), Brendan Coyle (1963), Bruce Halford (1931), Chris Claremont (1950), Steve O'Rourke (1940), Bob Bell (1958), and Giles Gilbert Scott (1880).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone ranks 631. Before him are John Graves Simcoe (1752), Peter Mandelson (1953), Denis Healey (1917), Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), and Malcolm MacDonald (1901). After him are John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), Nigel Lawson (1932), George Lansbury (1859), Edmund Andros (1637), Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford (1868), and Thomas Norton (1532).

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