Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1890 — Mr. Gladstone’s Brother. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Gladstone’s Brother.

Speaking of the Robertson Gladstone, brother of the British statesman, he was, says a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, perhaps the most noted man Tn LTverpool in his day,” for he was a most interesting character. He made it a strict practice to visit the fishmarket every day of his life and bargain with the fishwives. There are hundreds of stories of his fish-market experiences; and many brilliant sallies of wit used to pass between him and the fishwives of the market. He was a terrible haggler about price, but he did it for fun, and it is well known that in the end he used to pay dear for his ioke. Imagine an enormous man, over six feet, with broad shoulders and prominent features, surmounted a huge old-fashioned halflow crowned farmer’s hat. Add to the picture shabby, unfashionable do* hes, and you have tho late Robertson Gladstone. Every day be crawled down to Liverpool in a curious little shabby brougham with one horse and it used to be a puzzle, like the fly in the amber, however such an immense man contrived to get in and out of so diminutive a vehicle. For all this he was a very rich man—much richer, it used to be thought, than his distinguished brother, the ex-prime minister. Robertson Gladstone was a powerful and slashing orator and doted on his brother.