MR GLADSTONES WEALTH.
Among other things to be gleaned froiq, Mr Motley's great book in that Mr Glad* st one was not v poor man. Hawarden, after great exertions on hi* part to clsar the feet of his brother-in-law, became hie, with a £10,000 tvnl-roll, comparatively carlv in his career, though he transferred 1 he'ownership to his eldest son. On ■charity «n>l leligion it appear* from his bemks'that he spent from 1831 to 1890 up. wards «rf £120.000, and in the retfr of bia. life £13,500, and these sums do not include Ihe £50.000 left for the hostel and library, at St. Deiniol's.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11751, 27 November 1903, Page 4
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103MR GLADSTONES WEALTH. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11751, 27 November 1903, Page 4
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