William Ewart Gladstone - Wheeler, Michael (Visiting Professor of English, Visiting Professor
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Today William Gladstone is known as a great Victorian statesman whose father was a slave owner and who tried to rescue prostitutes. In this biography, Michael Wheeler focuses on his complex and often troubled spiritual life, and on his earnest attempts to follow the precepts of Christianity in both the public realm and in private philanthropy.

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Today William Gladstone is known as a great Victorian statesman whose father was a slave owner and who tried to rescue prostitutes. In this biography, Michael Wheeler focuses on his complex and often troubled spiritual life, and on his earnest attempts to follow the precepts of Christianity in both the public realm and in private philanthropy.
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Michael Wheeler is Visiting Professor of English at the University of Southampton; the Chairman of the Murray Bequest to Birkbeck College (history of art); and a member of the Athenæum (archive group). He was formerly Professor of English Literature and founding Director of the Ruskin Programme and Ruskin Collection Project, Lancaster (building the Ruskin Library); Co-Director, Chawton House Library and Professor of English Literature, University of Southampton; and Lay Canon of Winchester. He has been a recipient of major research grants (including Leverhulme and the British Academy), and a visiting lecturer in 18 countries overseas.