| Comment | Eh, aye he was
"In the House of Commons Gladstone was initially a disciple of High Toryism and, as a scion of one of the largest slave-holding families in the world,[15] he opposed both the abolition of slavery[16] and factory legislation. Gladstone's father was a slave owner; in 1834, when slavery was abolished, he helped his father obtain £106,769 in official reimbursement by the government for the 2,508 slaves he owned across nine plantations in the Caribbean.[17]"
He also didn't like catholics much
"In 1838 Gladstone nearly ruined his career when he tried to force a religious mission upon the Conservative Party. His book The State in its Relations with the Church argued that England had neglected its great duty to the Church of England. He announced that since that church possessed a monopoly of religious truth, nonconformists and Roman Catholics ought to be excluded from all government positions." |
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