Anne Mackenzie Robertson
(1772–1835)
BIRTH
August 4, 1772
PLACE
Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland
DEATH
September 23, 1835
PLACE
Fasque House, Kincardineshire, Scotland
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Gladstone
(1764–1851)
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Anne Mackenzie Robertson Gladstone was the second wife of merchant John Gladstone and mother of British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. She was a daughter of Andrew Robertson of Dingwall.
EARLY LIFE
Anne Mackenzie Robertson married Liverpool merchant John Gladstone in 1800. They raised four sons and two daughters, including future prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. A scholarly study of the family's letters describes her central role in her children's religious reading and education; she introduced William to educator Hannah More. The family moved to Fasque in the 1830s, and letters Anne wrote in 1833–35 survive at Gladstone's Library.
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DEATH
Anne Mackenzie Robertson Gladstone died at Fasque on September 23, 1835. A monument at St Andrew's Chapel there commemorates her, but the consulted records do not establish her precise burial site or cause of death.
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