{{Short description|British Baronet (1888–1968)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{infobox person | name = Sir Charles Gladstone | birth_name = {{nowrap|Charles Andrew Gladstone}} | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|GCStJ}} | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1888|10|28}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{dda|df=y|1968|4|28|1888|10|28}} | death_place = | father = {{nowrap|Rev. Stephen Edward Gladstone}} | mother = {{nowrap|Annie Crosthwaite Wilson}} | spouse = {{marriage|Isla Margaret Crum|1925|1968}} | relatives = Erskine William Gladstone (son)<br>Peter Gladstone (son)<br>{{nowrap|William Ewart Gladstone (grandfather)}}<br>Albert Gladstone (brother)<br>Sir John Evelyn Gladstone (cousin) | children = 6 | occupation = | education = Eton College | alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford {{infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = High Sheriff of Flintshire | term_start = 1951 | term_end = 1951 | predecessor = Ralph Eldon Owen | successor = John Heron Storey }} {{infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = British Army<br>Royal Flying Corps | battles = World War I | unit = Territorial Force | service_years = 1912–1924 | rank = Lieutenant | commands = | awards = }} }} '''Sir Charles Andrew Gladstone, 6th Baronet''' (28 October 1888{{snd}}28 April 1968) was a Master at Eton College and a British baronet.
Gladstone was the son of the Reverend Stephen Edward Gladstone and Annie Crosthwaite Wilson, and the grandson of the former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone.<ref>{{cite book| title=The Blood Royal of Britain| author=Melville Henry de Massue| publisher=Genealogical Pub Co| location=Baltimore| year=1994| isbn=0-8063-1431-1| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_nx4Fc5ZZgC&dq=Charles+Andrew+Gladstone&pg=RA1-PA276}}</ref> As a ten-year-old, he attended William Gladstone's state funeral.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26980|page=3845|date=22 June 1898}}</ref> He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a Master at Eton College from 1912 to 1946, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Territorial Force in 1912, attached to Eton's Officer Training Corps unit.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28668|page=9222|date=3 December 1912}}</ref> He fought in World War I, and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps from April 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29627|supp=y|page=6055|date=16 June 1916}}</ref> On being captured, he became a POW. After the war, he continued to serve with the Eton OTC until 1924 when he resigned his commission and was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31941|supp=y|page=6567|date=11 June 1920}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32516|supp=y|page=9015|date=11 November 1921}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32984|page=7593|date=21 October 1924}}</ref>
Gladstone married Isla Margaret Crum, the daughter of Sir Walter Erskine Crum, on 3 January 1925.<ref>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition volume 2, page 1558.</ref> They had six children, the oldest of whom was Sir Erskine William Gladstone of Fasque and Balfour, the 7th Baronet. Another son, Peter, was a noted naturalist.
Gladstone became a deputy lieutenant of Hampshire in 1929,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33453|page=71|date=1 January 1929}}</ref> and was the Vice-Lieutenant between 1948<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=38289|page=2935|date=14 May 1948}}</ref> and 1968, and was a justice of the peace (JP) for Flintshire. He held the office of High Sheriff of Flintshire in 1951.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=39175|pages=1428–1429|date=16 March 1951}}</ref> In 1955 he was appointed a Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=40529|page=3882|date=5 July 1955}}</ref>
He succeeded to the title of 6th Baronet Gladstone, of Fasque and Balfour on 2 March 1967, following the death of his older brother, Sir Albert Charles Gladstone, the 5th Baronet.<ref>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition</ref> Having proved his claim to the baronetcy he did not use the title.
His son inherited the Baronetage under the appellation of Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet.
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