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The Death of Gladstone
In 1890 Lord Salisbury was Prime Minister. He introduced some moderate reforms at home. His 1891 Education Act made elementary schooling free but nothing was done for secondary education. The Liberal Party conference took place at Newcastle in 1891. The Newcastle Programme promised Home Rule for Ireland, disestablishment of the Scottish and Welsh Churches, rural government, Parliaments every three years and industrial accident compensation for workers. Gladstone was returned in 1892. In 1893 he introduced the second Home Rule Bill only for it to be rejected by the Lords. Indeed the only bill the Government did get through the Lords was the Local Government Act which gave us urban and district councils and elections to parish councils. Gladstone resigned in 1894 and died four years later.
"In England, those classes which have been wont to resort to the universities have during the last sixty or seventy years fared well. Those who could afford to pay the very high charges made at some of the great endowed schools have had an education which, if somewhat one-sided, has been highly stimulative to certain types of mind. But the great body of the commercial and professional classes were long forced to content themselves with a teaching which was usually limited in range and often poor in quality, and whose defects had become so familiar that they had ceased to be felt as defects. "The educational opportunities offered in most of our towns, and in nearly all our country districts, to boys and girls who do not proceed to the universities, but leave school at sixteen, are still far behind the requirements of our times, and far less ample than the incomes of the parents and the public funds available might well provide."  
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