Adam Gladstone
(1814-1863)
8 March 1861

Volume 2, page 278, sitting number 2401.

Adam Steuart Gladstone was born on 2 August 1814 in Liverpool, the son of merchant and plantation owner Robert Gladstone and his wife Catherine (née Steuart). His first cousin was the politician William Gladstone, four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 

On 20 October 1847 he married Caroline Walker, daughter of Joseph Need Walker.

Adam S. Gladstone appears on the 1861 census, a 46-year-old East India merchant visiting his father-in-law, Joseph N. Walker, a lead merchant of Allerton, a suburb of Liverpool.

Adam Steuart Gladstone, aged 48, 'late of Olive Mount near Liverpool' died on 5 June 1863 at Norwood in Surrey. At the time of his death, he was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Liverpool Volunteer Rifle Brigade. He left an estate valued at £140,000. 

[From an album compiled by Charles Balfour, a British wine merchant importing sherry and port from Portugal. Born in Edinburgh on 22 August 1822, his father was James Balfour. In May 1852 he married Mary Ermelinda, daughter of Robert Woodhouse of Oporto in Portugal. The couple were married at the consulate then afterwards at the British chapel in Oporto. Charles Balfour died on 12 January 1876.]