Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden

Henry Neville Gladstone (2 April 1852–28 April, 1935) was the 1st (and last) Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, the title becoming extinct on his death. [L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 131]

The third son and seventh child of Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of Great Britain William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine Glynne, and the older brother of Herbert John Gladstone, he married the Hon. Maud Ernestine Rendel, daughter of Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands and Ellen Sophy Hubbard, on 30 January, 1890 at St George Hanover Square in London.

He was educated at the Revd William Montagu Higginson's church preparatory school in Norfolk, and then at Eton College, and at King's College London. [Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 1558] In 1871 he 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 India. 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 Prime Minister, his father. He was a director of P&O, and of the B.I. Steamship Company. He was an Alderman of the Flint County Council in 1916. [Thomas, Ivor 'Gladstone of Hawarden; a Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden' Pub. John Murray. 1936]

He became Lord of the Manor of the family estates at Hawarden, when its previous owner, his nephew, William Glynne Charles Gladstone, 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 Lord Lieutenant of Flint, and was President of the University College of North Wales at Bangor. He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for both Flintshire and Cheshire.

He was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D., and was created 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden on 22 June, 1932. He was the Constable of Flint Castle in 1934. [Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 1558]

He died in 1935 without issue.

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* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p5932.htm#i59319 Gladstone on The Peerage.com website]
* [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O28728 Gladstone in the National Archives]