Charles Gladstone, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Gladstone

Britrish Baronet

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1888

Date of Death: 28-Apr-1968

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Charles Gladstone

  • Sir Charles Andrew Gladstone, 6th Baronet (28 October 1888 – 28 April 1968) was a Master at Eton College and a British baronet. Gladstone was the son of the Reverend Stephen Edward Gladstone and Annie Crosthwaite Wilson, and the grandson of the former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone.
  • As a ten-year-old, he attended William Gladstone's state funeral.
  • He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
  • He was a Master at Eton College from 1912 to 1946, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Territorial Force in 1912, attached to Eton's Officer Training Corps unit.
  • He fought in World War I, and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps from April 1915.
  • On being captured, he became a POW.
  • After the war, he continued to serve with the Eton OTC until 1924 when he resigned his commission and was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant.
  • Gladstone married Isla Margaret Crum, the daughter of Sir Walter Erskine Crum, on 3 January 1925.
  • They had six children, the oldest of whom was Sir Erskine William Gladstone of Fasque and Balfour, the 7th Baronet.
  • Another son, Peter, was a noted naturalist. Gladstone became a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire in 1929, and was the Vice-Lieutenant between 1948 and 1968, and was a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Flintshire.
  • He held the office of High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1951.
  • In 1955 he was appointed a Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John.He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Gladstone, of Fasque and Balfour on 2 March 1967, following the death of his older brother, Sir Albert Charles Gladstone, the 5th Baronet.
  • Having proved his claim to the baronetcy he did not use the title.
  • His son inherited the Baronetage under the appellation of Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet.

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