The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-18
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Nxj GLADSTONE, VINO has just been
bassy at Washington. has re-
Gently been acting as private secre
tary to Lord Aberdeen. tho viceroy
of ireland, and is the grandson and
| the principal heir of the Grand Old
Man as well as owner of Hawardcn
Castle, which has been the bourne OF
so many an American pilgrimage. He
/ is twenty-five years OF age. and while
a. New College, Oxford, won distinc-
ton as one OF the best speakers Of
the famous oxford Union, which for
generations has been the principal de-
I batting society OF the university and
the school, where some OF the most
celebrated OF British orators and
ledge of public speaking.
Hawarden Castle never really be-
/ longed TO the Grand Old Man. It
was was III the property Of the lattcr.s
and was left by him In trust for
the newly appointed attache at Wash
i,n IN the great statesman be-
property and appointed one OF the
/ trustees, He carefully husbanded and
{ developed tho resources of the Ha-
warden estate. spending all OF his own
money that he could upon tho place.
! Transforming 1t from an unproddctiyc
ana embarrassed estate into an ex-
tremely profitable one. In fact he
| was far more successful in tho MAN
agement Of the fortune left to his
/ in the administration of his own f.
nances, and thanks TO his discovery
of minerals and of coal at Hawarder,
, the latter now yields very large
income
Then. too. young Gladstone has BEN
ehted largely under the WIN OF his
mothers father. the last Lord Blan,
Blantyre left his daughter, tho Hon.
Mrs. William Henry Gladstone. widow
of the Grand old Mans eldest son,
sum Of $4,000 IN trust for, her boy.
as well as his stately London man
/ sion In Berkeley Square, with all It's
furniture, paintings, art treasures and
silver plate, as well as the horses and
carriages in tho stables belonging
! thereto.
Young. Gladstones mother never GO,
! on well with her husbands brothers
! and sisters, and 1t may be recalled
that IN her portrait, is Included in none
OF the innuraerablc family groups of
| the Gladstone household al Hawarden
| which were issued to the public until
| the time OF the Grand Old Mans de-
| mise Among the many causes Of
| friction was the fact that although
!. the castle had been left by Sir Stephen
| Glynne in the first place to her hus-
band, and then to her eldest bpy, old
Mr.. Gladstone having merely a life in
| terest in the place, yet she was never
| permitted to make her home there
while he WAS alive. When she came
| there 1t was merely as q visitor. Nor
| virtually her sons estate. over which
| her sisters law had far more con-
troll than herself. The Hon. Mrs, Clad
| stone submitted to all this in silence
| and mother-in- law, for both Of whom
| she entertained the most profound
| veneration, We're alive. But she saw
no reason for continuing to permit
/ In ~ hn iCrnl IN mn nj
with the castle after his death, and
| this led to, some little family unpleas-
| antness, the sons and daughters and
the sons-in-law OF, the great Liberal
| leader rcsenting tho idea OF being
/ compelled to vncate castle which had
been their home from their childhood,
4 and upon which their father had spent
! large sums Of, money that would other
| modest fortune that he left to be
/ shared between them
Although master of Hawarden Cas-
J tie, young William Glynne Gladstone
lis not in any sense of the word the
| CHIEF OF the Gladstone family. That is
/ a dignity which does not even be-
long to Lord Gladstone, the Governor
/ General OF south Africa, but to the
4 Grand Old Mans nephew, Sir John
/ Gladstone, a retired officer of the
Scots Guards. and who, like his father
| before him, is a typical Tory baronet.
Indeed his father, the late Sir Thomas
/, Gladstone. represented Epswich as a
! Conservative for many Years In the
4 House OF, Commons, Invariably voting
against his younger brother, the Lib
eral leader. The brothers, however,
| never allowed amy political differences
ia Interfere with their fraternal re-
/ lations.
Sir John, too, always remained very
| devoted to his famous uncle, who used
| occasionally to visit him a Fasque the
some Of the excellent whisky dis
titled on the estate and for which
Fasaue is celebrated throughout the
1 United; Kingdom. Sir John is ono OF
/ the great whiskey dlstillers of Scot
] land, and his distilleries at Basque
are known fan, and wide as the Fetter-
4 cairn dishllerics. The Castle of Ias-
que Is one Of the statelieat castel-
lated mensionsl In Scotland, IL stands
i on II Wooded slope, surrounded BY a
4 noble park and woods that extend
some eighty miles, Sir John, VINO is
4 a tall, good looking and broad
4 shouldered giant. Is unmarried, and