Sir John Robert Gladstone, 3rd Baronet (26 April 1852 – 25 June 1926) was the son of Sir

Thomas Gladstone Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet (25 July 1804 – 20 March 1889) was a Tory politician from Liverpool, who returned to the ancestral seat in the Highlands to become a country squire. Less well known than his brother William, Tom, as he was know ...

, an older brother of the Liberal Prime Minister

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, and Louisa Fellowes. He attended the

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of his uncle, W. E. Gladstone, in 1898. Like his father, Gladstone was

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, and was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) in that county. He was a

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in the 1st Battalion, the

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, and was a

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in the

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. He succeeded his father as baronet on 20 March 1889.Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition p. 1557 He died on 25 June 1926 aged 74. He never married, so the title passed to his cousin, John Evelyn Gladstone.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gladstone, John, 3rd Baronet 1852 births 1926 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English people of Scottish descent Coldstream Guards officers 3 John Gladstone, 3rd Baronet Lord-lieutenants of Kincardineshire Members of the Royal Company of Archers People educated at Eton College