... and independence. This was, in essence, the character of William Ewart Gladstone. Paragraph 2: Best way to consider Gladstonian Liberalism is to examine main areas of legislation and reform, paralleling this narrative with links to paragraph 1. * Thrift and care with finance: Income tax reductions and free trade budgets as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Aberdeen(?). Absence of social reform due to dislike of spending public £. * Opportunity for all: University Test Act 1871; Education Act 1870; Army Reforms 1873; Civil Service Reforms 1872(?) * Fondness of disestablishing the established: married Women's Property Act; architect of both the 1867 Reform Act as well as the later extension, the 1883 Act. Removed primacy of Protestant Church of Ireland (1869) and loosened the Protestant grip on power with the celebrated Land Act 1870. * Autonomy and Independence: mainly foreign policy. Afghanistan, Sudan, Transvaal and Ireland all enjoyed to a greater or lesser extent some autonomy ...

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