William Ewart Gladstone - Monuments

Monuments

• The first statue erected in Gladstone's honour after his death was in Blackburn in 1900.

• A statue of Gladstone by Albert Bruce-Joy and erected in 1882, stands near the front gate of St. Marys Church in Bow, London. Paid for by the industrialist Theodore Bryant, it is viewed as a symbol of the later 1888 match girls strike, which took place at the nearby Bryant & May Match Factory. Led by the socialist Annie Besant, hundreds of working girls from the factory had gone on strike to demand improved working conditions and pay, eventually winning their cause. In recent years, the statue of Gladstone has been repeatedly daubed with red paint, suggesting that it was paid for with the 'blood of the match girls'.

• A statue of Gladstone, erected in 1872, stands in the Great Hall of St. George's Hall, Liverpool. Another, in bronze by Sir Thomas Brock, erected in 1904, stands outside in St John's Gardens.

• A statue of Gladstone, erected in 1905, stands at Aldwych, London, near the Royal Courts of Justice.

• A Grade II listed statue of Gladstone stands in Albert Square, Manchester.

• A monument to Gladstone, Member of Parliament for Midlothian 1880–1895 was unveiled in Edinburgh in 1917 (and moved to its present location in 1955). It stands in Coates Crescent Gardens. The sculptor was James Pittendrigh McGillvray.

• A statue to Gladstone, who was Rector of the University of Glasgow 1877–1880 was unveiled in Glasgow in 1902. It stands in George Square. The sculptor was Sir William Hamo Thornycroft.

• Gladstone Park in the Municipal Borough of Willesden, London was named after him in 1899. Dollis Hill House, within what later became the park, was occupied by Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, who subsequently became Lord Tweedmouth. In 1881 Lord Tweedmouth's daughter and her husband, Lord Aberdeen, took up residence. They often had Gladstone to stay as a guest. In 1897 Lord Aberdeen was appointed Governor-General of Canada and the Aberdeens moved out. When Willesden acquired the house and land in 1899, they named the park Gladstone Park after the old Prime Minister.

• Near to Hawarden in the town of Mancot, there is a small hospital named after Catherine Gladstone. A statue of Gladstone stands prominently in the front grounds of the eponymous Gladstone's Library (formerly known as St. Deiniol's), near the commencement of Gladstone Way at Hawarden.

• Gladstone Rock—a large boulder about 12 ft high in Cwm Llan on the Watkin Path on the south side of Snowdon where Gladstone made a speech in 1892. A plaque on the rock states that he 'addressed the people of Eryri upon justice to Wales.'

• A statue of Gladstone stands in front of the Kapodistrian University building in the centre of Athens.

• Liverpool's Crest Hotel was renamed The Gladstone Hotel in his honour in the early 1990s, but in 2006 was renamed again as The Liner Hotel.

• Gladstone, Manitoba is a town in central Canada that was named after him in 1882.

• Gladstone, Oregon is a city in the northwestern United States named after him.

• Gladstone, New Jersey is a town in the northeastern United States named after him.

• Gladstone, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Union County in the northeast part of the state, was named in his honor in 1880 by English emigrant William Harris.

• Gladstone, Queensland, Australia was named after him and has a 19th century marble statue on display in its town museum.

• A school and a street in Bulgaria's capital Sofia are named in his honour, as is a street in the city of Plovdiv, and in Limassol, Cyprus.

• A street in the neighbourhood of Geduld Extension in the Gauteng town of Springs, South Africa is named after Gladstone

• William Gladstone Primary School (Formerly St. Thomas' and recently renamed as Rimrose Hope) is a Primary School located in Seaforth, in which he was raised and educated.

• There is a Gladstone Road in Newark-on-Trent where Gladstone was a Member of Parliament

• There is a Gladstone Street in Waterford City and also Clonmel in Ireland.

• There is a Gladstone Street in the BD3 postcode area of Bradford, West Yorkshire.

• There is a Gladstone Road, a Gladstone Street and a Gladstone Lane in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.

• There is a Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa, Canada, which was renamed from Ann Street. From 1855 to 1889 it was the southern limit of the city west of the Rideau Canal.

• There is a Gladstone in South Australia named after him. The local town hall has a bust of him on display in its foyer

• There is a Gladstone statue at Glenalmond College, unveiled in 2010 which is located in Front Quad.