For 10 points, name this "Grand Old Man," a four-time Liberal British prime minister and rival of Benjamin Disraeli.
One of this man's secretaries, Thomas Burke, was killed in the Phoenix Park Murders. His education minister, William Forster, passed an act establishing school boards nationwide. As prime minister, he introduced the secret ballot and limits on campaign expenditures and disestablished the Irish Church. He denounced the "Bulgarian Horrors" during his Midlothian campaign. Queen Victoria chastised him after Mahdists killed "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum. He passed the Third Reform Act but failed to pass Irish Home Rule. For 10 points, name this "Grand Old Man," a four-time Liberal British prime minister and rival of Benjamin Disraeli.
One of this man's secretaries, Thomas Burke, was killed in the Phoenix Park Murders.
William Ewart Gladstone