Catherine Gladstone

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Catherine Glynne Gladstone, née Catherine Glynne (6 January 1812 – 14 June 1900) was the wife of British Prime Minister William Gladstone for 59 years, until his death in 1898. She was the daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet of Hawarden Castle, who died when she was only three. Her brother Stephen succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815.

It was through her brother, who represented Flint as a Liberal MP, that Catherine met William Gladstone. They were married on 25 July 1839 and lived at her ancestral home Hawarden Castle, in Flintshire, North Wales. They had 8 children together, including Herbert John Gladstone and Henry Neville Gladstone. She was buried next to her late husband in Westminster Abbey.

On the death of her brother without heirs in 1874, the Glynne baronetcy became extinct and the estates passed to Catherine and William's eldest son, William Henry.

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• Portraits of Catherine Glynne Gladstone at the National Portrait Gallery, London
• Images of Catherine Glynne Gladstone at the National Portrait Gallery

Preceded by Mary Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield	Spouse of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1868–1874	Succeeded by Mary Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield
Preceded by Mary Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield	Spouse of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1880–1885	Succeeded by Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury
Preceded by Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury	Spouse of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1886	Succeeded by Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury
Preceded by Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury	Spouse of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1892–1894	Succeeded by None (The Earl of Rosebery)