Gladstone Junior

1855 cover LLANWRST to LIVERPOOL. SG29 / C8 1d red stars perf 14. PLATE 37

Sent to a nine year old Walter Longueville Gladstone, son of merchant, West Indies plantation owner and Liverpool mayor, Robertson Gladstone, and nephew of future PM William Gladstone. Court Hey was the family pile outside Liverpool.

Would have been sent to him from a cousin in the Sandbach family, probably birthday greetings based on the date.

Caricature from Vanity Fair.