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Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet (25 July 1804 – 20 March 1889) was a Tory politician from Liverpool, who returned to the ancestral seat in the Highlands to become a country squire.
Biography. Eldest son of John Gladstone (q.v.) and older brother of the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone. His father's Liverpool based firm was heavily involved in the West Indian trade. Upon his father's death Thomas inherited his Baronetcy and the family estate.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet (25 July 1804 – 20 March 1889) was a Tory politician from Liverpool, who returned to the ancestral seat in the Highlands to become a country squire. Less well known than his brother William, Tom, as he was known, was both a principled and honest man who supplied his brother with good advice.
As Liberal leader Gladstone propounded a political theory that had freedom at its heart, but he retained Conservative values of tradition, social inequality, and order. The two sides of his viewpoint were reconciled by his ideal of community, expressed in family, church, the municipality, the nation, and the community of nations.
Thomas Steuart Gladstone was the eldest son of Liverpool merchant and plantation owner Robert Gladstone and Catherine Steuart. His uncle was Sir John Gladstone (q.v.) and first cousin Liberal prime minister William Gladstone (q.v.).
Gladstone, the eldest of the four sons of the wealthy Liverpool merchant John Gladstone, who had great political ambitions for them, enjoyed a happy childhood at Seaforth House, Lancashire, being especially close to his elder sister Anne, who was fated to die young, and to his younger brothers, Robertson and John Neilson Gladstone†.
Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet was a Tory politician from Liverpool, who returned to the ancestral seat in the Highlands to become a country squire. Less well known than his brother William, Tom, as he was known, was both a principled and honest man who supplied his brother with good advice.
