Charles Stewart Parnell (Cathal Stiùbhard Pharnell ) , (27 June 1846 - 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner, Irish nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, Home Rule MP. in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and Great Britain and described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met. Another future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.