iii. 258;

returned for Leeds, ii. 618; press interview of (Dec. '85), iii. 264-265; otherwise mentioned, ii. 474, 477, 614, 617; iii. 1.

---- Sir John (father), political work of, i. 9-10, 20-21, 249; churches built by, i. 11 _and note 1_; marriage of, i. 16; views of, on slave-holding, i. 22-24; Gladstone's defence of, in the _Liverpool Courier_, i. 32; loses Berwick election, i. 43; political acuteness of, i. 68-69; criticisms on W. E. Gladstone, i. 74; Howick's attack on, i. 102; Fasque bought by, i. 107; seventieth birthday of, i. 118; loses Dundee election (1837), i. 141; disapproves Jamaica journey, i. 148; transfers Demerara property to his sons, i. 224; assists Scotch training college scheme, i. 231; correspondence with Peel regarding his sons, i. 257-258; views of, on protection, i. 300, 327; baronetcy of, i. 293, 300; views on Gladstone's Oxford candidature, i. 330; on Jewish Disabilities Removal bill, i. 376; buys portion of Hawarden estates, i. 341; attitude towards Peel (1849), i. 353; death of, i. 388; W. E. Gladstone's relations with, i. 19, 32, 43, 82-83, 98; W. E. Gladstone's letters to, i. 123, 280, 283-284, 353, 375-376, 635; letters from, on choice of profession, i. 640; W. E. Gladstone's estimate of, i. 19, 138.

Gladstone, Mrs. John (mother), W. E. Gladstone's devotion to, i. 95, 128, 131; death of, i. 131.

---- John (brother), i. 15, 17 _note 1_; travels of, with W. E. Gladstone, i. 86; Walsall candidature of, i. 231-232; parliamentary election of, desired by his father, i. 258; W. E. Gladstone's letter to, on family differences, i. 388; illness and death of wife of, ii. 95, 96; death of, ii. 187.

---- Mary (daughter), _see_ Drew.

---- Robertson (brother), i. 17 _note 1_; appointed manager of Demerara properties, i. 224; position of, in Liverpool, i. 258; at Gladstone's Lancashire candidature (1865), ii. 146; W. E. Gladstone's letters to, i. 494, 552-553, 626; ii. 62, 130, 456.

---- Stephen (son), ii. 256, 474, 500.

---- Thomas (grandfather), i. 16.

---- ---- (brother), slave-holding defended by, i. 24; attitude towards Reform bill, i. 70 _note_; on Gladstone's Oxford candidature, i. 330; Gladstone's letter to, on offers of a peerage, ii. 494; otherwise mentioned, i. 17 _note 1_, 68, 258.

---- William Ewart:-- Appearance of (1827), i. 34; (1840) i. 194; (1882) iii. 91. _Career, chronological sequence of_-- =1809-1831.= Birth and baptism, i. 7; childhood, i. 10-14; at Eton, i. 26-44; first speech, i. 35; Oxford, i. 48-85; tries for the Ireland, i. 61, 329 _note_. =1832.= Foreign travel, i. 86-88; impressions in Rome, i. 87; Newark candidature, i. 88-94, 96-97; election addresses, i. 90; first speech as member of parliament, i. 94; visits to Clumber, Thornes, and Leamington, i. 95; birthday, i. 97. =1833.= Lincoln's Inn, i. 98; membership of Oxford and Cambridge club and Carlton club, i. 98 _and note_; forms brotherhood with Acland, i. 99; enters parliament, i. 100; maiden speech, i. 103; party votes (1833), i. 106; visit to Fasque, i. 107. =1834.= Visit to Seaforth and Oxford, i. 111; at Fasque, i. 116; treasury appointment, i. 119-120; opposes admission of dissenters to universities, i. 330. =1835.= Returned for Newark without contest, i. 121; meets Disraeli at Lord Lyndhurst's, i. 122; appointed under-secretary for the colonies, i. 123; contemplates resignation, i. 125; speech on Irish church, i. 126; speech at Newark, i. 129; committee on native affairs at the Cape, i. 358. =1836.= Death of his mother, i. 131; visit to Drayton, i. 132; visit to Hawarden, i. 134; speech on negro apprenticeship, i. 134 _and note_; visit to Haddo, i. 137; committee on waste lands, i. 358. =1837.= Speech at Newark on toleration, etc., i. 138; presents the Queen with the Oxford address, i. 140; canvassing at Newark, i. 140; nominated for Manchester, i. 141; elected for Newark, i. 141; at Dundee, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, i. 141; at Fasque, i. 142; first interview with Duke of Wellington, i. 143. =1838.= Admitted to consultations on Canadian affairs, i. 144; speaks on Molesworth's vote of censure, i. 145; speech on slave apprenticeship system, i. 145-147; work on educational questions, i. 148; influenced by Coleridge and Palmer, i. 167-168 _note 1_; _The State in its Relation with the Church_, i. 172, 175; foreign travel, i. 173. =1839.= Opinions on his book, i. 175-181; work on committees, i. 219; marriage, i. 223. =1840.= Speech on China question, i. 226; birth of eldest son, i. 227; dines at Guizot's, i. 229; examines at Eton, i. 229; Scotch training college scheme, i. 230-231, 330; committee on colonisation of New Zealand, i. 358. =1841.= _Church Principles_, i. 181; his brother's Walsall election, i. 231-232; visits Nuneham and Oxford, i. 235; speaks on sugar duties, i. 236; re-elected for Newark, i. 238; Sir S. Glynne's candidature--Hoylake--Hawarden, i. 239; vice-president of the board of trade, i. 240-245, 250; re-elected for Newark, i, 243; correspondence with Peel on journalistic imputations,