{{Short description|Scottish ornithologist and landowner (1877-1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} '''Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch''' [[FRSE]] FSA FZS MBOU DL LL (1877&ndash;1949) was a Scottish [[ornithologist]] and landowner. He served as [[Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries]] 1946 to 1949.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dgnhas.org.uk/people/hsgladstone.php |title=Hugh S. Gladstone |website=www.dgnhas.org.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727155921/http://www.dgnhas.org.uk/people/hsgladstone.php |archive-date=2013-07-27}}</ref>

==Life==

Gladstone was born on 30 April 1877 the son of Samuel Steuart Gladstone of Capenoch and his wife Sophia Musgrave. He lived his life at Capenoch House in [[Penpont]] in Dumfriesshire, a major country house designed by [[David Bryce]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (December 29, 2021, 9:50 pm)|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=403413|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.scottisharchitects.org.uk}}</ref> He was sent to [[Eton College]] and then studied at [[Cambridge University]] graduating MA.

He was on 10 February 1897 appointed a [[second lieutenant]] in the 3rd ([[Militia (United Kingdom)|Militia]]) battalion of the [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]],<ref>Hart′s Army list, 1900</ref> and promoted to [[Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines)|lieutenant]] on 4 April 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27179 |date=3 April 1900 |page=2202}}</ref> The [[Second Boer War]] started in late 1899, and Gladstone was in 1900 commissioned for active service with the regiment in South Africa, winning two campaign medals and five clasps.

On return to Britain he served as a [[County Councillor]] 1904 to 1946. He served numerous senior roles in the Dumfries Council. In 1909 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[James Cossar Ewart]], [[Henry Littlejohn#Henry Harvey Littlejohn|Henry Harvey Littlejohn]], [[James Geikie]] and [[Cargill Gilston Knott]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=10 July 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the [[First World War]] he rejoined the KOSB as a captain and was [[Mentioned in Dispatches]]. He later moved to the General Staff in the War Office in London serving administrative functions.

In 1920 he became Chairman of the Wild Birds Advisory (Scotland) Committee, serving this role until death.

In 1933 he was one of eleven people{{efn|The letter was signed: {{Flatlist| * [[William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough|Desborough]] * Hugh S. Gladstone * [[Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon|Grey of Fallodon]] * [[Julian Huxley|Julian S. Huxley]] (Chancellor of Oxford University) * [[Tom Longstaff|T. G Longstaff]] * [[Percy Lowe|Percy R. Lowe]] * [[Peter Chalmers Mitchell|P. Chalmers Mitchell]] * [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]] * [[Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield|Scone]] M.P. (Chairman, British Trust for Ornithology) * [[Emma Louisa Turner|E. L. Turner]] * [[Harry Forbes Witherby|H. F. Witherby]] (President, British Ornithologists' Union) }}}} involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the [[British Trust for Ornithology]] (BTO), an organisation for the study of [[birds]] in the British Isles.<ref>{{cite news |title=Observers of Birds |url=https://www.bto.org/sites/default/files/u38/downloads/home-news/2013-06/bto-letter-the-times-July-1-1933.pdf |work=[[The Times]] |date=1 July 1933}}</ref>

He was knighted in 1941.

He died at Capenoch House on 5 April 1949.

==Publications==

*''Birds of Dumfriesshire'' (1910)

==Family==

He married Cecil Emily Chetwynd-Talbot in January 1907. They had one daughter, Jean Cecil Gladstone (who married [[Roderick Barclay]]), and two sons, John Gladstone of Capenoch (his heir) and [[David Steaurt Gladstone]] (an architect).

==Artistic recognition==

His portrait by [[Herbert James Gunn]] is held by Dumfries Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sir Hugh S. Gladstone of Capenoch (1877–1949) {{!}} Art UK|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-hugh-s-gladstone-of-capenoch-18771949-215438|access-date=2021-12-29|website=artuk.org|language=en}}</ref>

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