Kincardine, died at Fasque House in December 1851, aged 86, and was buried at St Andrew's Episcopal Church at Fasque. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet. He has been described by Checkland as "a strong, vigorous and overpowering man, whose life was strewn with quarrels, great and small." Memorials A plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of Great Junction Street and King Street in Leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of John Gladstone. Gladstone Place on Leith Links is named in his honour as is "Gladstones" puplic house on Mill Lane in Leith. See also Jack Gladstone Notes References Burnard, Trevor, and Kit Candlin. "Sir John Gladstone and the debate over the amelioration of slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s." Journal of British Studies 57.4 (2018): 760–782. Checkland, S.G. "John Gladstone as Trader and Planter" Economic History Review 7#2 (1954), pp. 216–229 online Checkland, Sydney. The Gladstones: A Family Biography, 1764–1851 (1971). Quinault, Roland. "Gladstone and slavery." The Historical Journal 52.2 (2009): 363–383. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X0900750X focus on father and son Shannon, Richard, Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809–1865 (1985), . Sheridan, Richard B. "The condition of the slaves on the sugar plantations of Sir John Gladstone in the colony of Demerara, 1812-49." New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 76.3-4 (2002): 243-269 online. Taylor, Michael. "The British West India interest and its allies, 1823–1833." English Historical Review 133.565 (2018): 1478–1511. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey336, focus on slavery Gladstone, John. The Correspondence Between John Gladstone, Esq., MP, and James Cropper, Esq., on the Present State of Slavery in the British West Indies and in the United States of America: And on the Importation of Sugar from the British Settlements in India: with an Appendix; Containing Several Papers on the Subject of Slavery. (West India Association, 1824)., a primary source. online External links Guiana 1838 Movie 1764 births 1851 deaths British Guiana people West Indies merchants Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 Tory MPs (pre-1834) People from Leith John Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish merchants Scottish philanthropists Scottish politicians 18th-century Scottish people 19th-century Scottish people Scottish knights Scottish people of the British Empire Businesspeople from Liverpool Sugar plantation owners British slave owners Parents of prime ministers of the United Kingdom Recipients