What is William Ewart Gladstone?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] | name = William Ewart Gladstone | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRS|FSS|size=100%}} | image = Gladstone W.E. Ols.jpg | caption = | order = [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] | term_start = 3 December 1868 | term_end = 17 February 1874 | monarch = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]] | predecessor = [[Benjamin Disraeli]] | successor = Benjamin Disraeli | term_start1 = 23 April 1880 | term_end1 = 9 June 1885 | monarch1 = Victoria | predecessor1 = [[Benjamin Disraeli|The Earl of Beaconsfield]] | successor1 = [[Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|The Marquess of Salisbury]] | term_start2 = 1 February 1886 | term_end2 = 20 July 1886 | monarch2 = Victoria | predecessor2 = The Marquess of Salisbury | successor2 = The Marquess of Salisbury | term_start3 = 15 August 1892 | term_end3 = 2 March 1894 | monarch3 = Victoria | predecessor3 = The Marquess of Salisbury | successor3 = [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery|The Earl of Rosebery]] | office4 = [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] | primeminister4 = [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen|The Earl of Aberdeen]] | term_start4 = 28 December 1852 | term_end4 = 28 February 1855 | predecessor4 = Benjamin Disraeli | successor4 = [[George Cornewall Lewis]] | primeminister5 = [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|The Viscount Palmerston]]<br />[[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|The Earl Russell]] | term_start5 = 18 June 1859 | term_end5 = 26 June 1866 | predecessor5 = Benjamin Disraeli | successor5 = Benjamin Disraeli | primeminister6 = Himself | term_start6 = 11 August 1873 | term_end6 = 17 February 1874 | predecessor6 = [[Robert Lowe]] | successor6 = [[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Stafford Northcote]] | primeminister7 = Himself | term_start7 = 28 April 1880 | term_end7 = 16 December 1882 | predecessor7 = [[Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh|Stafford Northcote]] | successor7 = [[Hugh Childers]] | office8 = [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]] |