William Gladstone
William Gladstone is Disraeli's rival and the Templars' preferred Prime Minister. In Double Trouble Jacob steals his and his wife's invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball, along with their carriage.
- Role
- Supporting
Good to know
- Voiced by Damon Redfern.
- Born 29 December 1809 in Liverpool; died 19 May 1898 at Hawarden.
- Prime Minister four times.
- Married Catherine Glynn.
- Has poor relations with Queen Victoria, unlike Disraeli.
- Argues with Disraeli over the Corrupt Practices Bill at the Sinopean Club in Playing Politics.
Why the Templars like him
The Templars plan to kill Disraeli and replace him with Gladstone, whom they think easier to manipulate. Their plot fails.
Family Politics
Duleep Singh shares a carriage ride with Gladstone, escorted by Evie, while looking for politicians to back Indian independence. Gladstone flatly refuses, saying Britain governs India better and that its rule will continue once he is Prime Minister.
Arriving at the ball
The Gladstones reach Buckingham Palace, discover their invitations are gone, and then watch their own carriage roll up to the door.
Double Trouble
Disraeli says Gladstone may as well have his invitation if he is attending, and Evie volunteers Jacob to steal the Gladstones' cards. Their house is empty, so Jacob tracks Gladstone to a Liberal gathering where he is promising supporters lower taxes and free trade, and lifts the card there. Full sync asks you not to kill any policemen and not to damage the Gladstones' carriage, which Jacob later takes from Catherine at Victoria station.
At the ball
Queen Victoria asks Evie whether she is to blame for Mr. Gladstone's mishap, then simply recommends the cake.
- Playing PoliticsPlaying Politics opens Sequence 7 at the Sinopean Club, where Jacob watches Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli argue with William Gladstone and looks for the mysterious B who is plotting Disraeli's death. A spy, a rooftop sniper and a chase follow.
- Double TroubleDouble Trouble begins the finale: after a bitter argument, the twins agree to one last job together, and Jacob has to steal William and Catherine Gladstone's invitations to the Queen's ball. The two split up, so you pickpocket each one in turn.
- Family PoliticsFamily Politics has Evie earn the location of the second set of palace plans by driving Duleep Singh around London in a stolen royal carriage, so he can lobby three politicians about the kingdom Britain took from him.
A Night to RememberA Night to Remember is the final main memory: the twins enter the Queen's ball at Buckingham Palace, Evie retrieves the vault plans from the White Drawing Room while Jacob rescues captive Royal Guards on the roofs, and both face Crawford Starrick in the vault below.
Related characters
- Protagonist
Evie Frye
Evie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.
- Supporting
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli is the Prime Minister the Templars want dead in Sequence 7. Jacob poses as his bodyguard to save him, and the Disraelis later help the twins steal the Gladstones' invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball.
- Antagonist
Crawford Starrick
Crawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
- Supporting
Mary Anne Disraeli
Mary Anne Disraeli is the outspoken wife of the Prime Minister. In Driving Mrs. Disraeli she makes Jacob take her slumming in the Devil's Acre, and in return tells him who the mysterious B behind the plot against her husband is.