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Dec 11, 1764 Leith, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 07 Dec 1851 (aged 86)
British politician
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About Sir John Gladstone 1st Baronet
- Sir John Gladstone of Fasque, 1st Baronet, FRSE LLD (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, slave owner, Member of Parliament, and the father of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
- Through his commercial activities he acquired several large plantations in Jamaica and Guyana, worked initially by enslaved Africans.
- The extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished in 1833, he received the largest of all compensation payments made by the Slave Compensation Commission.
