Albert Gladstone

Sir Albert Charles Gladstone, 5th Baronet, MBE, DL (28 October 1886 – 2 March 1967) was a British businessman and rower who won a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Four weeks later, he was a crew member of the Leander eight, which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

He was promoted to captain in the 2nd/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), in the Indian Army Reserve, and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1919.

[5] Gladstone was a successful businessman and held many important positions being a Director of the Bank of England from 1924 to 1947 and a senior partner of Ogilvy, Gillanders & Company, East India merchants and accepting house.

[citation needed] He succeeded his cousin Sir John Evelyn Gladstone as baronet, on the latter's death on 12 February 1945.