Background
He was the third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
He was the third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
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.
He was the brother of William Henry Gladstone and Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone. 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.
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 was a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for both Flintshire and Cheshire.
He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Gladstone of Hawarden, of Hawarden in the County of Flint, on 22 June 1932.
He was the Constable of Flint Castle in 1934.