Gladstone baronets

The Gladstone Baronetcy, of Fasque and Balfour in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

The name Gladstone is geographical, deriving from a farmstead near Biggar in Lanarkshire; it comes from the Old English for "kestrel stone".

He represented several constituencies in the House of Commons and served as Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire.

William Ewart Gladstone, fourth son of the first Baronet, was the distinguished statesman who served four times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

They still own the Fasque estate though they have now sold the House, and are now seated at Hawarden Castle in Wales, which was acquired through the marriage of William Ewart Gladstone to Catherine, the heiress of the Glynne family.