 Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, of Fasque and Balfour in the County of 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."