{"id":3280,"date":"2010-06-07T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gladstone-william-ewart\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:17:40","slug":"gladstone-william-ewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gladstone-william-ewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladstone, William Ewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gladstone.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27631\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gladstone.png\" alt=\"Gladstone\" width=\"191\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>William Ewart<\/strong> <strong>G<\/strong><strong>ladstone <\/strong><strong>(1809-1898) <\/strong>was four times prime minister of Britain and often considered its greatest statesman of the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a> was obviously aware that Gladstone was familiar with the works of Plato, having studied the classics at Oxford and despite having written<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>1484<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup> and lectured on the works of\u00a0Homer\u00a0and so sent him a copy of his book in February 1882. There is a story, probably apochryphal that <em>&#8220;<\/em><em>Gladstone sent this letter and addressed it to Ignatius Donnelly Esquire, America. And Ignatius, being an Irishman and not wishing to be outdone, decided to reply to him and his reply said: The Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, the world.&#8221;<\/em><sup>(a)<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/sup>A short correspondence between them ensued.<\/p>\n<p>It then\u00a0seems that Gladstone was so impressed by\u00a0Donnelly\u2019s book on Atlantis that he sought funds from the British Treasury to send a ship to locate the position of Atlantis in the Atlantic. The Treasury declined the request. However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/braymer-marjorie\/\">Marjorie Braymer<\/a> remarked, \u201cnews like this sent the sales of Donnelly\u2019s book skyrocketing\u201d. Incidentally, Gladstone would have been familiar with the works of Plato having studied the classics at Oxford and having written and lectured on Homer and his works.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170902213920\/https:\/\/ikengachronicles.com\/atlantis-was-there-a-lost-continent\/\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170902213920\/https:\/\/ikengachronicles.com\/atlantis-was-there-a-lost-continent\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) was four times prime minister of Britain and often considered its greatest statesman of the 19th century. Ignatius Donnelly was obviously aware that Gladstone was familiar with the works of Plato, having studied the classics at Oxford and despite having written[1484] and lectured on the works of\u00a0Homer\u00a0and so sent him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,123,108,795,132,4064],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-homer","tag-ignatius-donnelly","tag-marjorie-braymer","tag-plato","tag-william-gladstone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66530,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/66530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}