William Glynne Charles Gladstone was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and the last of four generations of Gladstones to serve in the House of Commons, the first being his great-grandfather Sir John Gladstone.
Background
Gladstone was born on 14 July 1885. His father, William Henry Gladstone (1840–1892), was the eldest son of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine, and his mother was the Honorary Gertrude Gladstone, daughter of Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre.
He inherited from his father the 18th-century Hawarden Castle which had belonged to the family of his grandmother"s brother Sir Stephen Glynne, the 9th and last baronet.
Education
He was educated at home before attending Eton and then New College, Oxford. He was president of the Oxford Union in 1907 and graduated with a second class degree.
Career
His body was the last to be officially repatriated during World War I. Political career In 1909, Gladstone was the Assistant Private Secretary to John Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen who was serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In 1911, he served a few months at the British Embassy in Washington, District of Columbia as an Honorary Attaché to Lord Bryce. A whip in Asquith"s government, he served only 4 years in Parliament.
Military service Gladstone was commissioned into the British Army on 15 August 1914 as a second lieutenant (on probation).
He had originally wished to enlist as a private but was advised to become an officer He joined the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and underwent training at Wrexham before going out to France in March 1915.
He first came under fire on 23 March. His commission was confirmed and he was promoted to lieutenant on 7 April 1915.
On 13 April 1915, he was killed in action near Laventie, three weeks after arriving in France.
He was shot by a sniper. Having initially been buried in France, special permission was granted by King George V for his body to be brought back to the United Kingdom. Nine days after his death, his body was disinterred and re-buried in the churchyard of Street Deiniol"s, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales.
As a memorial, a rood was installed at Street Deiniol"s, Hawarden and a new theatre and wards at Chester Royal Infirmary.
Herbert Gladstone, another uncle, wrote a memoir of him that was published in 1918.
Membership
30th United Kingdom Parliament]
He stood as the Liberal Party candidate in the Kilmarnock Burghs by-election held on 26 September 1911 and was elected as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament).