The Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Ewart Gladstone, was willing to accept a bigger appropriation for armoured ships if it could be offset by reduction in expenditure on wooden line of battleships.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was willing to accept a bigger appropriation for armoured ships if it could be offset by reduction in expenditure on wooden line of battleships. William Ewart Gladstone was the Chancellor of the Exchequer.