The G.O.M. Only a Lodger.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 6, Issue 563, 23 November 1891, Page 3

The G.O.M. Only a Lodger.

Some surprise is expressed (writes a London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald) at a provision of the will of the late Mr W. H. Gladstone. which declares that Mr and Mrs Gladstone, the testator's father and mother, shall be entitled to the use of llawarden Castle and its furniture for the joint lives, and to the survivor of them for his or her life. It has naturally been supposed that Mr Gladstone was the lord of Ha warden Castle, and people are amazed to discover that he lived there only by favor of his eldest son. Such, however, is tlie case. Hawarden Castle came into the Gladstone family from the Glynnes. When Mr Gladstone married the eldest daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne the baronet was alive and in occupation at Hawarden Castle. After the marriage lie invited the young couple to make Hawarden their country home, setting apart for their use a portion of the castle that was called the Gladstone wing. The property is entailed on the heirs male of the baronet, since liis death the Lord of tlie Manor has been his grandson, William Henry—Mr and Mrs Gladstone being, so to speak, lodgers.