 Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet

Sir John Gladstone of Fasque, 1st Baronet, FRSE LLD (11 December 1764 – 7 December 1851) was a Scottish merchant, slave owner, Member of Parliament, and the father of the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.Through his commercial activities he acquired several large plantations in Jamaica and Guyana, worked initially by enslaved Africans.