Excerpt from Heroes of the Nineteenth Century: Gladstone Havelock Bismarck Lincoln Leaving Eton in 1827, Gladstone became for a time the private pupil of Dr. Turner, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta. Then in 1829 he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was made a student on the foundation. Two years later he went up for' his examination, and completed his academical career by attaining the highest honours of the University, graduating double first-class. With regard to honours in the schools, he achieved a success which falls to the lot of but few students, although he had no prizes of the highest description. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.