Biography of William Glynne Charles Gladstone 1885-1915

On 30th September 1875 [his father] William Henry Gladstone [aged 35] and [his mother] Gertrude Stuart [aged 25] were married.

On 14th July 1885 William Glynne Charles Gladstone was born to [his father] William Henry Gladstone [aged 45] and [his mother] Gertrude Stuart [aged 35]. He was educated at Eton College [Map] and New College, Oxford University.

On 4th July 1891 [his father] William Henry Gladstone [aged 51] died.

In 1907 William Glynne Charles Gladstone [aged 21] was President of the Oxford Union.

On 26th September 1911 William Glynne Charles Gladstone [aged 26] was elected MP Kilmarnock Boroughs which seat he held until his death in 1915.

1915. Photograph of William Glynne Charles Gladstone [aged 29].

On 13th April 1915 William Glynne Charles Gladstone [aged 29] was killed in action near Laventie; shot by a sniper. He was initially buried in France, but permission was granted by King George V for his body to be brought back to the United Kingdom. Nine days after his death, his body was disinterred and re-buried in the churchyard of St Deiniol's, Hawarden. His body was the last to be officially repatriated to the United Kingdom during the First World War. As a memorial, a rood was installed at St Deiniol's, Hawarden, and a new theatre and wards at Chester Royal Infirmary. Gladstone is also commemorated on Panel 8 of the Parliamentary War Memorial in Westminster Hall, one of 22 MPs who died during the War to be named on that memorial.