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Catherine Gladstone

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She was "like a fresh breeze" wherever she went and could, wrote a friend, grasp the subject of a discussion in "a few minutes' airy inattention". Unlike her husband, she was a notoriously untidy person, habitually leaving her letters strewn on the floor in the well-founded faith that someone would
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If her own life was always somewhat dishevelled, she went to great pains to improve the lives of others as a founder of convalescent homes, orphanages and the like. "Few people", wrote Masterman, "can have given so much of themselves to so many, and can have been directly responsible for more
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practical and effectual enterprises. This seems to have been achieved by a mind that kept the thread of its intentions through a series of inspired impulses and improvisations sustained, it should be said, by a circle of devoted people whose minds worked on more conventional lines."
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eventually pick them up and post them. Her chests of drawers were similarly messy, and she was rarely much bothered with fancy attire. "What a bore you would have been," she teased her husband, "if you had married someone as tidy as you are."
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inherited the estate aged seven. She was raised with her sister Mary by her mother. The Glynne sisters, very close, were renowned for their beauty. They married on the same day, 25 July 1839, in
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succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815. On his death in 1874, the Glynne baronetcy became extinct and the estates passed to Catherine and William's eldest son,
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The Rev. Stephen Edward Gladstone (1844–1920); he married Annie Wilson in 1885. They had five children: their eldest son
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Agnes Gladstone (1842–1931); she married Very Rev. Edward Wickham in 1873. They had three children.
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Catherine Glynne was the daughter of Hon. Mary (nÊe Griffin), second daughter of
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Leading ladies: a study of eight late Victorian and Edwardian political wives
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Catherine Jessy Gladstone (1845–1850); died aged 5 on 9 April 1850 from
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She died on 14 June 1900 and was buried next to her late husband in
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Weyman, Henry T. (1902), "Members of Parliament for Wenlock",
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William and Catherine Gladstone's grave in Westminster Abbey
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MP (1840–1891); married Hon. Gertrude Stuart (daughter of
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Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden
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Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew): Her Diaries and Letters
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Flintshire
Flintshire
Westminster Abbey
Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom
William Ewart Gladstone
William
Helen
Mary
Henry
Herbert
Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet

nÊe
William Ewart Gladstone

Frederick Richard Say
2nd Baron Braybrooke
Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet
Hawarden Castle
Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
Hawarden Church
William Ewart Gladstone
George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton
Stephen
William Henry
Lucy Masterman

Stephen
Flint

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