LORD GLADSTONE'S DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22096, 30 April 1935, Page 9

LORD GLADSTONE'S DEATH

FAMOUS STATESMAN'S SON LONG LIFE OF SERVICE * LONDON, April 28 The death has occurred of Lord Gladstone, third son of the late lit. Hon.' W. E. Gladstone, at the age of S3 years Henry Neville Gladstone, first Baron " Gladstone, of Havarden, was for 30 years senior partner in the firm of Ogilvy, Gillanders and Company, of London and Liverpool, and Gillanders, Arbuthnot and Company, of Calcutta. He was also a director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. In 1871 he entered the East India house of his uncle. Mr. Robertson Gladstone, of Liverpool, and of his grandfather. Sir John Gladstone. From 1874 to 1889, ho was in Calcutta. For some time he acted ns private secretary to his father. From 1906 to 1908 ho was a member of the Treasury Committee on National Guarantee for War Risks of Shipping, and in 1911 served on the Committee on Irish Financial Relations. In 1913 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency. He was Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire, president of tho Flintshire Countv Committee of the British Legion and of the Flintshire League of Nations Council. In 1890 he married the Hon. Maud Ernestine Rendel, C.8.E., second daughter of the first and last Baron Rendel.