Person DS/UK/3683 Gladstone; Sir; John (1764-1851); baronet; merchant and slave-owner, politician Gladstone John Sir Male baronet; merchant and slave-owner, politician 1764-1851 White Scottish Sir John Gladstone, 1st baronet, was a slave-owner who possessed plantations in Demerara (later part of Guyana). At the time slavery was abolished in 1833 he was had the largest number of enslaved persons working on his estates, and received the largest compensation payment. After abolition he expelled most of the African workers from his estate and employed indentured workers from India. He criticised Robert John Wilmot-Horton's publication "The West India Question Practically Considered" saying that it “neither went to the root or met the difficulties with which the question is surrounded”. He went on to write a critique in the Liverpool Courier under his pseudonym, Mercator. Father of William Ewart Gladstone, who served as Prime Minister four time between 1868 and 1894. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Improve Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 17/02/2021 DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 17/02/2021 5bc65505-6a56-452d-94c9-3feaca314834