Gladstone and the 1870 Elementary Education Act.

The article provides an overview of the passage of the Elementary Education Act of 1870 in the first ministry of former Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in Great Britain. It discusses the religious difficulty within the English education and to the Cowper-Temple clause's compromise in the act. It explores the intervention of Gladstone in the Education Bill at crucial moments, both in private communications and Commons speeches, in spite demands of the Irish Land Bill.