Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet, of Fasque

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Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet (25 July 1804 – 20 March 1889) was a Tory (later Conservative) politician in the United Kingdom.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Queenborough from 1830 to 1831,^[1] for Portarlington from 1832 to 1835,^[2] for Leicester from 1835 to 1837,^[3] and (briefly) for Ipswich 1842.^[4] He was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1876 until his death in 1889.

An elder brother of the Liberal Prime Minister William Gladstone, he was born in Liverpool, the eldest son (and second child) of the wealthy Scottish-born businessman John Gladstone (born Gladstones) and his second wife Anne MacKenzie Robertson.^[5]

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• ThePeerage.com: Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Bt.
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Baronetage page.

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• Portraits of Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Bt at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Holmes and The Lord Downes of Aghanville	Member of Parliament for Queenborough with Sir Philip Durham 1830–1831	Succeeded by John Capel and Sir John Grant
Preceded by Sir William Rae	Member of Parliament for Portarlington 1832–1835	Succeeded by George Dawson-Damer
Preceded by Wynne Ellis and William Evans	Member of Parliament for Leicester with Edward Goulburn 1835–1837	Succeeded by Samuel Duckworth and Sir John Easthope
Preceded by George Rennie and Rigby Wason	Member of Parliament for Ipswich with John Cuffe 1842	Succeeded by John Neilson Gladstone and Sackville Walter Lane-Fox
Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir James Burnett, Bt.	Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire 1876–1889	Succeeded by Sir Alexander Baird, Bt.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Gladstone	Baronet (of Fasque) 1851–1889	Succeeded by Sir John Robert Gladstone, 3rd Baronet