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- He disestablished the Church of Ireland (1869), thereby solving a long-term Irish grievance
An outstandingly successful piece of legislation, steered through the Lords with much dexterity (even Archbishop Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury voted for it)
- He threw himself into the impossibly complex area of landlord-tenant relations, an area so complicated and politically dangerous that no politician before him had sort to go. OK, the Land Act was limited, but its failings were down to naivety, not a lack of ambition. Gladstone really thought that hed solved the land problem once and for all.
- Note, unusually, he personally had drafted this legislation; hed put hours of painstaking research into it!
- He tried to set-up an Irish University for all faiths. No-one before him had tried. It wasn't his fault that sectarian in-fighting rendered the task impossible.
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