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Great Britain · Politics / Tory Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1795–1831Date range
2Named people
6Places

Chronological records

1795

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1795

Harrow · Politics / Tory Party

Educated at Harrow School (1795'g1800)

1800

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1800

Edinburgh · Politics / Tory Party

Studies at the University of Edinburgh (1800'g1803), where he learnt political economy from Dugald Stewart, a friend of the Scottish philosophers Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith

1803

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1803

Cambridge · Politics / Tory Party

Palmerston studies at St John's College, Cambridge (1803'g1806)

1806

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rd1806

Cambridge · Politics / Tory Party

Obtains First Class honours

1816

William Ewart Gladstone1816

Seaforth · Politics / Tory Party

Educated from 1816 to 1821 at a preparatory school at the vicarage of St Thomass Church at Seaforth, close to his familys residence, Seaforth House

1821

William Ewart Gladstone1821

Eton · Politics / Tory Party

Follows in the footsteps of his older brothers and attends Eton College

1828

William Ewart Gladstone1828

Oxford · Politics / Tory Party

Matriculates at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Classics and Mathematics, although he had no great interest in mathematics

1831

William Ewart Gladstone1831

Oxford · Politics / Tory Party

Graduates with a double first

Names involved

Henry John Temple Palmerston, 3rdWilliam Ewart Gladstone

Provenance

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