Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, Wales. 18th-century mansion house designed by Samuel Turner for Sir John Glynne, remodelled in the Regency era in crenellated Gothic-Revival style by Thomas Cundy for Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 8th Baronet. Home of William Gladstone, MP, whose father John Gladstone owned 11 plantations in British Guiana and Jamaica (2,912 enslaved). Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, Willia


Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, Wales. 18th-century mansion house designed by Samuel Turner for Sir John Glynne, remodelled in the Regency era in crenellated Gothic-Revival style by Thomas Cundy for Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 8th Baronet. Home of William Gladstone, MP, whose father John Gladstone owned 11 plantations in British Guiana and Jamaica (2,912 enslaved). Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris’s Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880.


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