England's Premier.
Mr Gladstone has often boasted In possession of i urcly Scotch bluod. lm it will be news to many of his admirer* (says the London correspondent of tin Birmingham Post) (hat he is descend) d from Duncan King of Scotland, who, in recompense for being murderfd bj Mucbvtli, has been immortalised bj Shakespere. This is on his mother's side, and it is from D'ngirali, his mother's native place, and of which the Prnie Minister himself is a burgess, that the intelligence comes. The .North Star, a Dingwall newspaper, has secured an elaborate genealogy ,f AJ r Gladstone on the maternal bide ; nnd this shows that the Highland family of Robertson -the Glad>tones were a Lowland family— is reolly the Clan Donachle, descended from Duncan through the second son of the lafet Celtic Earl of Atholl. Not only is it claimed that the Premier's ancestry connects him with the older line of Scottish monarch 0 , bnt thu most renowned ' and powerful of the ancient Celtic princes, the Lords of Kintail aud Eilean Donao ; and the true Gludstonian who bappi-ns also to hare a taste for genoalo^y will rejoice accordingly.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 4
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190England's Premier. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 4
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