

Gladstone Bag. 

 Type of portman- 

 teau named after 

 W. E. Gladstone 



GLADSTONE BAG 



The House of Lords, however, 

 rejected Gladstone's second Home 

 Rule bill, but it was not this, but 

 the size of the navy estimates, that 

 led to his resignation in March, 1894. 

 He retained his seat until 1 895. In 

 spite of his great age, and his failing 

 eyesight, he spent his concluding 

 years mainly in his study, working 

 on two subjects he loved, Homer 

 and Butler. He appeared in public 

 in Sept., 1896, 

 to denounce 

 the Armenian 

 massacres. He 

 died at Hawar- 

 den, May 19, 

 1898, and was 

 buried inWest- 

 minsterAbbey. 

 In 1 8 3' 9 

 Gladstone 

 married Catherine, sister and heiress 

 of Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th baronet. 

 Through this marriage the castle 

 and estates of Hawarden passed into 

 the Gladstone family. On the states- 

 man's death it came to his grand- 

 son, W. G. C. Gladstone, M.P., who 

 was killed in action, April 11, 1915. 

 Lord Morley coined an admir- 

 ably descriptive phrase when he 

 spoke of " those incomparable 

 physical gifts which seemed to 

 encase a soul of fire in a frame of 

 pliant steel." After a life of 

 active service prolonged far be- 

 yond the appointed limit, and 

 spent either in strenuous labour or 

 in recreations scarcely less laborious, 

 Gladstone could walk to the sum- 

 mit of Snowdon when he had 

 turned eighty ; and, when blindness 

 and deafness had disabled him, the 

 stethoscope could detect nothing 

 amiss in heart or lungs. He seemed 

 incapable of fatigue. From work, 

 even the most exhausting, he re- 

 quired only change of occupation. 

 By common consent Gladstone 

 ranks as one of the great orators of 

 the 19th century, and perhaps its 

 greatest parliamentarian. A clear 

 and beautiful voice, a generous 

 flow of language, and above ail 

 a burning belief in the cause he was 

 at the moment advocating, account 

 for his power to sway the multi- 

 tude. He was also great as a 

 finance minister, where his lucidity 

 of expression, grasp of detail, and 

 capacity for work found full play. 

 As premier he was hardly so 

 successful, although at one time 

 the Liberal party seemed to 

 have no existence apart from 

 his dominating personality. His 

 vehement nature was not suited 

 to the calm and calculated thought 

 and action so necessary in foreign 

 affairs, while his imperiousness 

 made it difficult for others to work 

 with him. He had also a great 

 love of power. See Furniss, H. 



Bibliography. W. E. Gladstone, 

 G. W. E. Russell, 1891 ; Gladstone, 

 a Study from Life, H. W. Lucy, 1895 ; 

 Life, H. Paul, 1901 ; Life, John 

 Morley, 1903 and 1905; Religious Life 

 of Gladstone, D. C. Lathbury, 1910. 



Gladstone Bag. Light port- 

 manteau named after W. E. Glad- 

 stone. It is made of leather, etc., 

 with yielding or flexible sides, 

 stretched upon a metal frame, 

 hinged at the bottom so as to open 

 flat into compartments. 



Gladwyn ( Ir is foet id iss ima ) , 

 FOETID IRIS, OR ROAST-BEEF PLANT. 

 Perennial herb of the natural order 

 Iridaceae. It is a native of W. 

 Europe. The rootstock is thick 

 and creeping, the leaves 2 feet long, 

 sword-shaped, erect and dark 

 mm , green, the flowers 



dull blue-purple, 

 with darker veins, 



Gladwyn or Gladdpn. Fruit and, 

 inset, flower of Iris f oetidissima 



about 3 ins. across. The club- 

 shaped capsule splits into three 

 spreading sections, late in autumn, 

 disclosing the bright orange, round 

 seeds, which make the plant more 

 conspicuous than when in flower. 



Glaisher, JAMES (1809-1903). 

 British aeronaut. Born in London, 

 April 7, 1809, he was employed on 

 the Irish ordnance survey, and in 

 1833 received an appointment at 



Cambridge obser- 



vatory, which he [ 

 left three years f 

 later for Green- j 

 wich. He founded l 

 the Meteorological 

 Society in 1860, 

 and six years later I 

 helped to found 

 the Aeronautical 

 Society. In a bal- 

 loon ascent, Sept. 

 5, 1862, Glaisher 

 and Coxwell 

 reached a height of 

 27,887ft. to 28,543 

 ft. Glaisher wrote 



GLAMORGANSHIRE 



largely on aeronautics and meteor- 

 ology, his best known works being 

 Meteorology of England, 1860; 

 Travels in the 

 Air, 1870; and 

 Crystals of 

 Snow, 1872. He 

 diedFeb.7,1903. 

 Glamis. Vil- 

 lage and parish 

 of Forfarshire, 

 Scotland. It 

 stands on 

 Glamis Burn, 

 6 m. W.S.W. of 



Forfar, and is 



James Glaisher, 

 British aeronaut 



Elliott & Fry 



served by the Cal. Rly. In the 

 village is a sculptured stone, said to 

 be a memorial of Malcolm II. Near 

 the village is Glamis Castle, a seat of 

 the earl of Strathmore. The present 

 building, dating mainly from the 

 17th century, is in the Scottish 

 baronial style, with parts of a much 

 older building. Glamis is steeped 

 in history and legend. Here Mac- 

 beth is said to have lived and 

 Malcolm II to have been slain. 

 Pron. Glahms. 



Glamorganshire. County of 

 S. Wales. It lies along the Bristol 

 Channel, its other boundaries being 



the counties of ^ 



Carmarthen, < s3T~ 

 Brecknock, and 

 Monmouth. Owing 

 to the develop- 

 ment of the rich 

 coalfields, it has 

 become one of the 

 great industrial 

 centres of the 

 country, and is 

 much the most populous co. of 

 Wales. The chief mining area is 

 in the valleys that run down to 

 the sea around Cardiff, while there 

 is another industrial area around 

 Swansea. Between Rhymney 

 and Neath is the agricultural region 

 known as the vale of Glamorgan. 

 The Gower peninsula in the W. is 

 in some respects quite apart from 

 the rest of the co. ; on it are Worms 

 Head and the Mumbles Head. 

 Swansea Bay and Burry Inlet are 

 the chief openings. 



Glamorganshire 

 arms 



Glamis Castle. 



The Forfarshire seat oi the Earl of 

 Strathmore 



