President of the Board of Trade • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster • konsiliano de la Privata Konsilio de Britio • Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly • member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 15th Parliament of the United Kingdom • member of the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom • Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster vd
En partnereco kun Richard Cobden, li fondis la Ligon kontraŭ la Grenleĝo, cele al nuligo de la malpopularaj Grenleĝoj, kiuj protektis la terposedantajn interestojn altigante impostojn al importita greno, tiele altigante la prezon de pano kiam la fabrikposedantoj estis klopodintaj malpliigi kostojn. La nuligo estis atingita en 1846.
Graham D. Goodlad, 'Gladstone and his rivals: popular Liberal perceptions of the party leadership in the political crisis of 1886–1886', in Eugenio F. Biagini and Alastair J. Reid (eds.), Currents of Radicalism. Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 163–183.
G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913).