Panorama showing the Gladstone Memorial and area around Coates Crescent and Shandwick Street in Edinburgh.

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The Gladstone Memorial standing in Coates Crescent in Edinburgh shows William Ewart Gladstone in the uniform of a Privy Councillor. The monument was carved by James Pittendrigh McGillvray in 1917 and moved to Coates Crescent Gardens in 1955.

Gladstone was a very important and influential public figure in Victorian Britain. Born in 1809 in Liverpool into a merchant family, Gladstone became a Liberal party was Member of Parliament for Midlothian and served as Prime Minsiter for four terms, being appointed to the post on 1868, 1880, 1886, and 1892.

On a personal basis, Gladstone founded and oversaw a church foundation to help women caught in prostitution, spending a lot of time on this work. He was affectionately known as the 'Grand Old Man' by his many supporters and as 'God's Only Mistake' by his enemies, especially Benjamin Disraeli, the then leader of the Conservative Party.

William Gladstone is buried in Westminster Abbey in London. There are numerous statues to him scattered around the UK including statues in Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The town of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia is named after him.

Bus: Shandwick Place.
Walk: About a mile from Waverley Railway Station and 0.3miles from Haymarket Railway Station.