Sir John Gladstone, 4th Baronet

Who was Sir John Gladstone, 4th Baronet?

Sir John Evelyn Gladstone Bt was the 4th Baronet of Fasque and Balfour. He succeeded to the title on 25 June 1926 on the death of his cousin, Sir John Robert Gladstone, the 3rd Baronet

He was the son of John Neilson Gladstone, an older brother of William Ewart Gladstone, who later became Prime Minister, and Elizabeth Honoria Bateson. He attended William Gladstone's state funeral in 1898. Gladstone was educated at Eton College in Berkshire. He graduated MA from Christ Church at the University of Oxford in 1888. He was an officer in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry. He married Gertrude Theresa Miller, the daughter of Sir Charles Hayes Miller, on 3 January 1888.

Gladstone held the office of High Sheriff for Wiltshire in 1897, and was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. He was the Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire.

On his death aged 89 in 1945 Gladstone had three daughters, so the title passed to his cousin, Albert Charles Gladstone, who became the 5th Baronet.