William Gladstone: Woven silk portrait 'The Right Hon.W.E.Gladstone, Mp', manufactured by W.H.Grant, Folmshill, Coventry, c1885, in original window mount, overall 14 x 18 cm. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was a British Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886 and 1892-94)