John Gladstone
(1764–1851)
BIRTH
December 11, 1764
PLACE
Leith, Scotland
NAME
John Gladstones
DEATH
December 7, 1851
PLACE
Fasque House, Kincardineshire, Scotland
FAMILY
FATHER
William Gladstone
(1809-1898)
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Sir John Gladstone was a Scottish-born Liverpool merchant, politician, and father of prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. His wealth included plantations and ownership of enslaved people in the Caribbean. Anne Mackenzie Robertson was his second wife.
EARLY LIFE
He worked as a merchant and served in Parliament; his business interests included slave-worked sugar plantations.
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DEATH
John Gladstone died at his Fasque estate on December 7, 1851. He had built St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel there and established its burial place for his family. He was interred at the chapel.
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