Gaskell, he married Catherine Glynne, to whom he remained married until his death 59 years later. They had eight children together: William Henry Gladstone MP (1840–1891); married Hon. Gertrude Stuart (daughter of Charles Stuart, 12th Lord Blantyre) in 1875. They had three children. Agnes Gladstone (1842–1931); she married Very Rev. Edward Wickham in 1873. They had three children. The Rev. Stephen Edward Gladstone (1844–1920); he married Annie Wilson in 1885. They had five children: their eldest son Albert, inherited the Gladstone baronetcy in 1945. Catherine Jessy Gladstone (1845–1850) Mary Gladstone (1847–1927); she married Reverend Harry Drew in 1886. They had one daughter, Dorothy. Helen Gladstone (1849–1925), Vice-Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge Henry Neville Gladstone (1852–1935); he married Hon. Maud Rendel in 1890. Herbert John Gladstone MP (1854–1930); he married Dorothy Paget in 1901. Gladstone's eldest son William (known as "Willy" to distinguish him from his father), and youngest, Herbert, both became Members of Parliament. William Henry predeceased his father by seven years. Gladstone's private secretary was his nephew Spencer Lyttelton. Descendants Two of Gladstone's sons and a grandson, William Glynne Charles Gladstone, followed him into parliament, making for four generations of MPs in total. One of his collateral descendants, George Freeman, has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Mid Norfolk since 2010. Sir Albert Gladstone, 5th baronet and Sir Charles Gladstone, 6th baronet (from whom the 7th and 8th baronets are descended) were also grandsons. Legacy The historian H. C. G. Matthew states that Gladstone's chief legacy lay in three areas: his financial policy, his support for Home Rule (devolution) that modified the view of the unitary state of the United Kingdom and his idea of a progressive, reforming party broadly based and capable of accommodating and conciliating varying interests, along with his speeches at mass public meetings. Historian Walter L. Arnstein concludes: Lord Acton wrote in 1880 that he considered Gladstone one "of the three greatest Liberals" (along with Edmund Burke and Lord Macaulay). In 1909 the Liberal Chancellor David Lloyd George introduced his "People's Budget", the first budget which aimed to redistribute wealth. The Liberal statesman Lord Rosebery ridiculed it by asserting Gladstone would reject it, "Because in his eyes, and in my eyes, too as his humble disciple, Liberalism and Liberty were cognate terms; they were twin-sisters." Lloyd George had written in 1913 that the Liberals were "carving the last few columns out of the Gladstonian