William Glynne Charles Gladstone (14 July 1885 – 15 April 1915) was a Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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, and the last of four generations of Gladstones to serve in the House of Commons, the first being his great-grandfather Sir John Gladstone(s) (1764–1851).

He was elected as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Kilmarnock Burghs

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 at a by-election

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 in 1911. A whip

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 in Asquith's government, he served only 4 years in Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 before being killed in action while a Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers

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 in World War I

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His father, William Henry Gladstone

William Henry Gladstone

William Henry Gladstone was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, and the eldest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine née Glynne....

 (1840–1892), was the eldest son of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

 and his wife Catherine

Catherine Gladstone

Catherine Glynne Gladstone was the wife of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone for 59 years, until his death in 1898.-Family:...

. He inherited from his father the 18th-century Hawarden Castle

Hawarden Castle (18th century)

New Hawarden Castle, in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales was the estate of former British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, which previously belonged to the family of his wife, Catherine Glynne. It was built in 1752...

 which had been had belonged to the family of his grandmother's brother Sir Stephen Glynne

Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet

Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 9th Baronet was a Welsh landowner and Conservative Party politician. He is principally remembered as an assiduous antiquary and student of British church architecture...

, the 9th and last baronet. After his death, the estate was purchased by his uncle Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden

Henry Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden

Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden was a British businessman and politician. He was the third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.-Background and education:...

, the third son and (seventh child) of William and Catherine. His body was brought home and buried in Hawarden

Hawarden

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 Churchyard.

His uncle Herbert

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone GCB, GCMG, GBE, PC, JP was a British Liberal statesman. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914.-Background and education:Gladstone was...

 wrote a memoir of him.

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