Identifier: forfardirectoryy1899unse (find matches)
Title: The Forfar Directory and Yearbook 1899
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Publisher: W. Shepherd, Castle St, Forfar
Contributing Library: Angus Council
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE. -Born ■zgth December, 1809.Died iqtk May, 1898. (Frojn a j>hoto by Samuel A. Walker, 230, Regent Street, IV.) A yotmg man idle, an old man needy. Last Hours. ^M^HERE is no death\ What seems so is^■^ transition; This li/e of mortal breathIs but a suburb of the life Elysian Whose port.il we call rf^«//z.—Longfellow. Opportunities. Ti^PFOR TUNITYflies, O brother,^^ As the cloud that quick doth pa^s :Oh, jnake use of it! life is precious.If we let it go—alas I HiT.FlZ,
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H AWARD EN CAST I E Hawarden Castle derives its present celebrityfrom its having been the residence of the lateWilliam Ewart Gladstone, the distinguishedstatesman. It was there that he died on the19th of May, 1898. The modern castle or, strictly speaking, man-sion, of Hawarden was built in 1752 upon thesite of Broad Lane Hall, the seat of the Ravens-crofts, which came into Sir John Glynnes posses-sion by his marriage with the daughter of HenryConway and Honora Ravenscroft. It stands ina richly-wooded knoll, crowned by the pictur-esque remains of an old fortalice, now reducedto the dimensions of a tower or keep, mantledwith ivy, and still massive though crumbling toruin. On the death without issue of M rs. Gladstone sbrother. Sir Stephen Glynne, a life interest inthe Hawarden property passed to the late Mr.Gladstone, with a leversion to his eldest son.This son, Mr. William Henry Gladstone, sat inParliament for some time, and was a Lord of theTreasury from 1869 to 1874, but passed into

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