St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26
GLADSTONE AT HOME.
A Title That Runs Back to the Days
OF the Norman Conquest.

OF the Norman Conquest.
The Grand Old Man Permitted to
Enjoy 1t by His Son.
All the world knows that Mr.. Glad
stones country house is Hawarden (pro-
Harden) castle, in Flintshire,
North Wales, but few people, and least of
all the thousands of workingmen and other
votaries of ''The Peoples William" who
have carried away reliquary chips from the
demeSne, are aware that the
'Grand Old Man" does not own one stone
OF the castle. nor one inch Of the sod. and
that, unless by sutference Of his eldest son.
he has not even the right to pluck
a blade of grass. much less to fell a Tree,
upon the estate of Hawarden. There is
dash of romance in the story of how the
Gladstone's acquired Hawarden castle. The
very mention of this ancient place carries
one back to the days of the Norman con-
quest of England. Immediately after the
coronation of William the Conqueror at
Winchester, he created his nephew
Hugh Lupus Tor Hugh the Wolff, Earl
OF Chester, and gave him four lesser
Darons to form his court. for Chester
was created a County Paatine, and is
to this day described in all legal documents
as ''the County of the City of Chester
One of these barons was the Baron of Gros-
venor, now represented by Hugh Lupus
Duke of Westminster, ard
another was the Baron of Hawarden, now
by William Henry Gladstone,
in descent through the female line. Wal
ter de Hawarden was the first baron, and
from the time of
THE CONQUERER
to the final subjugation of the Welsh the
Hawardens had enough on their hands to
keep the Welsh on their own side of the
river Dee, which was the duty assigned to
them. for this was the debatable land be-
tween England and Wales, and although
neither England nor Wales has produced
Wizard of the North to immortalize
the doughty deeds done on either
side, as stirring scenes have
taken place on the banks of classic Deva as
on the better chronicled banks of Tweed
After the slaughter of the bards at An
glesea. and the birth of the first English
Prince of Wales at Camarvon, when the
spirit of the Welsh was well-nigh broken,
until the breaking out of the Wars of the
themselves under the red rose of
Lancaster and were ever to be
found where blows fell thickest. The &C
cession of Henry VII. which put an end to
these wars, found them shOrn of many
a fair manor, and with little remaining but
their name and the old castle, on the ruins
Of which the present comparatively modern
dwelling was built. In the time of Eliza
beth the last male descendant of the proud
Norman barons was left solitary man,
with an only child daughter, whom he
was glad to bestow in marriage upon
wealthy squire, possessed of wide lands in
Staffordshire, whose name was Randall
Glynne. The fair lady would not leave
her aged father, and SO Randall Glynne took
up his abode at Hawarden, and when
James /. came into England with
EMPTY POCKETS
Randall Glynne was one of the first of
the English gentlemen whom James created
baronets for the sake of obtaining the in
veSture fee of 8700-no mean sum in those
days. In due time Sir Randall died, and
was succeeded by his heirs, one baronet
after another, until we come in our time to
the last baronet. Sir Stephen Glynne, who
was contemporary at Oxford with William
Ewart Gladstone. The family then con-
sisted of Sir Stephen, the head of the
house, his brother Henry, and
sister, In his journeyings between
Liverpool and Oxford, what more natural
than that young Gladstone should visit his
college friends at Hawarden, and what
more natural than that mutual love should
arise between the handsome distinguished
young Oxonian and the only sister of the
Glynnes? At any rate, in due time they
were married, and the Miss Glynne of that
day is now the wife of England's premier.
Sir Stephen Glynne was mild, placid and
effeminate in his character. and
after meeting with disappointment in a
love affair he became quite recluse-the
world hearing no more of him until his
death in London. about fourteen years ago,
when attending a meeting of the Arch8ol-
Ogical society-and probably would have
taken scant notice then if it had not been
unusual for a baronet to be run over and
killed by street cab. Henry Glynne was
the counterpart of his brother, and. as the
country folks round Hawarden said, Had
no sperrit. Upon him had devolved the
family living" and he lived tranquil
life as rector of Hawarden-a post now
filled by MI. Gladstone's second son, Stephen.
The rector married early and had two
girls. who were by the death of
their mother left orphans at very tender
age, when he, like his brother Stephen, be-
came almost recluse. At length it be-
came necessary to educate the motherless
girls, and Mrs. Gladstone selected young
lady named Lowder. the daughter of
'decayed gentleman" residing at
Bath. Miss Lowder was in every
respect lady, and the two little
i.lc 10xyaI
mother and unfortunately, as the result
the fair governess, but he was not destined
to enjoy the sweets of welded life second
time. Long before the rector declared his
love Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone's visits to Ha-
warden had become so long and so frequent
that they practically lived at the castle
about all the time that Mr.. Gladstope's
official duties permitted his absence from
London. and as Mrs. Gladstone, who
seems to have inherited all the masculine
qualities of her family, had
acquired paramount authority over her
weaker brothers. it only needed the least
approach to an announcement of the rec
tors engagement for her to take effective
measures to put an end to it and to send
the young lady back to her native Somer-
setshire. From that time Rev. Henry
initiated his brother, shut himself up
with his books, and quietly glided out
of existence, leaving his two daugh-
ters to the care of his brother and
their aunt. On the death of Sir Stephen it
was found that he had bequeathed Hawar-
len castle and estate, sundry lands and
mines in Statfordshire, in fact all his real
to William Henry Gladstone,
while to the premier's second son, Stephen,
he left the living and the rectory, and to the
TWO daughters of his deceased brother but
$500 per annum each. Thus the
ilynnes died out of the land,
md the Gladstones came in, and this
s why the grand old man cannot
,hop down all the trees in Hawarden park |
sven if he wished to. OF the Gladstones it |
S singular that the two eldest sons re-
,emble their maternal uncles in character
md disposition, and that the two daughters
nave inherited the masculine disposition of |
heir mother, while Herbert is considered |
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