MR. GLADSTONE'S SCOTTISH ANCESTRY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIE,—Your correspondent of last week gives Mr. Gladstone's Scottish origin on his father's side. On his mother's side, it is purely Highland. The Editor of the Celtic Magazine gives it as follows, and I have verified the statement by reference to the valuable genealogical tables of the Clan Mackenzie, recently published by Major Mackenzie, of Findon :— " Afr. Gladstone is descended on the mother's side from the ancient Mackenzie of Kintail, through whom is introduced the blood of the Bruce, of the ancient Kings of Man, and of the Lords of the Isles and
Earls of Ross Andrew drew Robertson, a Writer in and Provost and Sheriff-Substitute of Dingwall, married Anne Mackenzie, daughter of Colin Mackenzie, a Baillie of Dingwall, by his wife Mary, only daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie, II. of Torridon."
Provost Robertson's daughter, Anne, was Mr. Gladstone's mother.
I may add that the genealogical tables of the Clan Mackenzie further show that by the marriage of Kenneth na Cuirc, X. of Kintail, with the Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of the second Earl of Athol, the royal blood of the Plantagenets was brought into the family.—I am, Sir, &c., A. B.
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