Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden (2 April 1852 – 28 April 1935) was a British businessman and politician. He was the third son of Prime Minister

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party. In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...

Background and education

Gladstone was the third son and seventh child of

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and four times

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, and his wife Catherine Glynne. He was the brother of

William Henry Gladstone William Henry Gladstone (3 June 1840 – 4 July 1891) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, and the eldest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine Glynne. Life Gladstone was born in Hawarden, Flintsh ...

and

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of Sout ...

. He was educated at the Revd William Montagu Higginson's church preparatory school in

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, and then at

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, and at

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.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 1558

Career

In 1871 Gladstone entered the London office of Gladstone, Wylie & Co., the firm founded by his paternal grandfather, Sir John Gladstone.J. Williams and A.-M. Misra, 'Gladstone, Henry Neville, Baron Gladstone of Hawarden (1852–1935)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 He was with Gillanders, Arbuthnot and Company, another family firm, between 1874 and 1888 in

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. In 1881 he was made a junior partner in the firm, and 1883 his father gave him £4000 with which to buy a senior partnership. He was private secretary to the

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, his father. He was a director of P&O, and of the B.I. Steamship Company. He was an

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on Flint County Council in 1916. Gladstone became

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of the family estates at

Hawarden Hawarden (; ) is a village and community (Wales), community in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle (medieval), Hawarden Castle. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, ...

, when its previous owner, his nephew,

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, was killed in action in April 1915. Gladstone purchased the succession to the estate, paid off the outstanding mortgage and improved the house, which from 1921 was his home for the rest of his life. He succeeded his late nephew as

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, and was President of the

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at Bangor. He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for both

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and

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. He was awarded the honorary degree of

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, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, of Hawarden in the County of Flint, on 22 June 1932. He was the Constable of Flint Castle in 1934.

Personal life

Lord Gladstone of Hawarden married the Hon. Maud Ernestine Rendel, daughter of

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and Ellen Sophy Hubbard, on 30 January 1890 at

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. There were no children from the marriage. He died in April 1935, aged 83, when the barony became extinct.

References

External links

Gladstone on The Peerage.com websiteGladstone
in the

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Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden (2 April 1852 – 28 April 1935) was a British businessman and politician. He was the third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Background and education Gladstone was the t ...

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