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Thomas Gladstones (3 June 1732 – 12 May 1809) was a Scottish flour merchant and philanthropist. He was the father of Sir John Gladstone and the grandfather of the British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.
11 de jun. de 2014 · Gladstone’s Land, una casa medieval en Edimburgo. La casa (“land” en escocés) se construyó en el año 1550 pero en 1617 el comerciante y burgués Thomas Gledstanes la compró y amplió. De él le viene el nombre y la escultura que desde las alturas controla la Royal Mile de un ave de presa capturando a un ratón, ya que ...
Thomas Gladstones (father) Helen (Nelly) Neilson (mother) Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet , FRSE (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, planter and Tory politician best known for being the father of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone .
His grandfather Thomas Gladstones was a prominent merchant from Leith, and his maternal grandfather, Andrew Robertson, was Provost of Dingwall and a Sheriff-Substitute of Ross-shire. His biographer John Morley described him as "a highlander in the custody of a lowlander", and an adversary as "an ardent Italian in the custody of a Scotsman".
12 de may. de 2022 · John Gladstone. Merchant and politican. He was born John Gladstones, though in 1787 he dropped the final 's' to become Gladstone. His father was Thomas Gladstones (1732–1809), a Leith...
Sir John Gladstones was born in Leith, Scotland in 1764. He was a Scottish merchant, slave-trader and Member of Parliament as well as W. E. Gladstone’s father. John moved to Liverpool in 1787, after learning the mercantile trade in Leith from his father, Thomas Gladstones, who himself was born the son of a miller and a farmer.
Biography. Thomas Gladstones was born at the farm of Mid Toftcombs in the parish of Biggar, Lanarkshire, the fourth son of John Gladstones (c.1696–1757), a miller and farmer at Mid Toftcombs. John Gladstones also served as an elder of Biggar Kirk. Thomas's elder brother, James, was a Church of Scotland minister and rector of Leith Academy.
