always somewhat dishevelled, she went to great pains to improve the lives of others as a founder of convalescent homes, orphanages and the like. "Few people", wrote Masterman, "can have given so much of themselves to so many, and can have been directly responsible for more practical and effectual enterprises. This seems to have been achieved by a mind that kept the thread of its intentions through a series of inspired impulses and improvisations sustained, it should be said, by a circle of devoted people whose minds worked on more conventional lines." References Sources External links Entry on Catherine Gladstone in Cassell's Universal Portrait Gallery (1895) Spouses of prime ministers of the United Kingdom 1812 births 1900 deaths Catherine Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone Burials at Westminster Abbey