how succesful was Gladstones first administration?

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History Britain- How successful was Gladstone's 1st administration?

To a certain extent Gladstone's 1st administration was successful in that he achieved so many reforms in such a short amount of time however you could also argue that his first administration was a failure because he wasn't re-elected in the next election, he resigned after the failure of the university reform act in 1874. In order to judge success or measure successfulness you will need to compare the impact with the objectives he had set out to do. Generally speaking one of his missions was to "pacify Ireland" which he failed to accomplish with his reform acts.

Gladstone's first administration was a great reforming administration. There was eleven reform acts in his first administration however the majority of these reforms were introduced between 1868-1872. The rate that the reform acts were being introduced drastically fell after 1872. Gladstone's reforms had ran out of steam by 1872. Gladstone however did manage to reform the country in many ways by changing systems such as the judiciary, civil service and army.

Gladstone believed that Ireland had three major grievances which was church land and education. Gladstone had introduced three different