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Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, FRSE (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, planter and Tory politician best known for being the father of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
A biographical entry on John Gladstone of Fasque, a Scottish merchant, slave owner, and MP, and the father of William Ewart Gladstone. Learn about his commercial activities, his plantations in Jamaica and Guyana, and his involvement in slavery and indentured labour.
Baronet; MP, Scottish merchant, slave owner, MP and father of the William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister. Owned large sugar plantations in Jamaica and Demerara, and after the Abolition of Slavery in 1833 received the largest payment made by the Slave Compensation Committee.
On the 27 th June, 1846, he was created a baronet, on the spontaneous suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, then Premier, and his was one of the very few baronetcies conferred by a minister more than commonly frugal in the grant of titles.
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, FRSE (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, planter and Tory politician best known for being the father of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
The archive contains personal, family, business, and estate papers of the Glynne and Gladstone families, including letters of Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, and his son William Ewart Gladstone. It covers topics such as slavery, politics, business, and the foundation of Gladstone's Library.
The Gladstone Baronetcy, of Fasque and Balfour in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 18 July 1846 for the Scottish businessman slave-owner and politician John Gladstone, [1] father of four-time prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.
