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Mary Drew
Mary Drew (''née'' Gladstone; 23 November 1847 – 1 January 1927) was a politics, political secretary, writer, and Hospitality, hostess. She was the daughter of the British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him. Family The Gladstones were a large and eccentric family. Mary's mother (''née'' Catherine Gladstone, Catherine Glynne) and her mother's sister Mary, Lady Lyttelton, married on the same day in the same church, and often kept both families in the same house. George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton, Mary's uncle, recalled finding "seventeen children upon the floor, all under the age of twelve, and consequently all inkstands, books, carpets, furniture, ornaments, in intimate intermixture and in every form of fracture and confusion". In all, there were seven Gladstone and twelve Lyttelton children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gladstone Drew
Mary Drew (''née'' Gladstone; 23 November 1847 – 1 January 1927) was a political secretary, writer, and hostess. She was the daughter of the British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him. Family The Gladstones were a large and eccentric family. Mary's mother (''née'' Catherine Glynne) and her mother's sister Mary, Lady Lyttelton, married on the same day in the same church, and often kept both families in the same house. Lord Lyttelton, Mary's uncle, recalled finding "seventeen children upon the floor, all under the age of twelve, and consequently all inkstands, books, carpets, furniture, ornaments, in intimate intermixture and in every form of fracture and confusion". In all, there were seven Gladstone and twelve Lyttelton children. Mary's father's rescue work amongst the prostitutes of London is well known a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |