1804 - 1889
Eldest son of John Gladstone (q.v.) and older brother of the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone. His father's Liverpool based firm was heavily involved in the West Indian trade. Upon his father's death Thomas inherited his Baronetcy and the family estate. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he sat as a Tory MP from 1830-1837 and again briefly in 1842. In Parliament he showed himself sympathetic to the West India lobby and provided his father with regular intelligence regarding the political manoeuvrings of abolitionists. In later life was the Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (1876-89).
In 1866 he subscribed to the committee of the Eyre Defence Fund.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/gladstone-thomas-1804-1889
The Eyre Defence and Aid Fund (London, 1866), p. 4
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Politician
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Anglican
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MP
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Queenborough Kent
1830 - 1831 election →
Portarlington Queen's County [Co. Laois]
1832 - 1834 election →
Leicester Leicestershire
1835 - 1837 election →
Ipswich Suffolk
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???? - 1848
Widow of prominent mahogany merchant and landowner
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Sir Thomas Gladstone', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643651 [accessed 22nd December 2024].
