GLADSTONE'S DIRECT DESCENT.
It is not known by many that Mr Gladstone claims direct descent from Henry HI., King of Scotland. Among his ancestresses, too, is Lady Jane Beaufort, who married King James I. of Scotland. The latter, while captive at Windsor became acquainted with Lady Jane, and the old couple were wedded at the old church of St. Saviour, at the foot of London Bridge. When released from captivity, James took his bride to share his Scottish throne. After his assassination, his widow, disconsolate for a time, married Sir Jam°s Stuart, and from line to line at last descended Anne Robertson, who in April 1800, married John Gladstone, father of the Grand Old Man. It is probably owing to this knowledge of his Royal descent from the Kings of both Scotland and England that Mr Gladstone has invariably refused any title of peerage.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1755, 13 June 1893, Page 3
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144GLADSTONE'S DIRECT DESCENT. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXII, Issue 1755, 13 June 1893, Page 3
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