John Robert Gladstone and sister

A carte-de-visite portrait of John Robert Gladstone (1852-1926), later Sir John Gladstone. He is probably seen here with one of his sisters.

John Robert Gladstone was the son of Sir Thomas Gladstone, an older brother of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. His mother was Louisa Gladstone (née Fellowes).

Like his father, he became Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire and was also a JP in that county. He was a Captain in the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards and a Brigadier in the Royal Company of Archers. He succeeded his father as baronet on 20 March 1889. in 1898 he attended the state funeral of his uncle, William Ewart Gladstone.

Sir John Gladstone died on 25 June 1926, at the age of 74. He never married, so the title passed to his cousin, John Evelyn Gladstone.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 31 May 1861.