Helen Gladstone

Helen Gladstone (28 August 1849 – 19 August 1925) was a British educationist, vice-principal at Newnham College in Cambridge, and co-founder of the Women's University Settlement. During the 1890s, Helen and her sisters took turns as the "daughter at home" to take care of their aging and increasingly frail parents, and in 1896, she regretfully decided to step down from her post at Newnham and move back to the family home for the remainder of her parents' lives. Both of her parents had died by 1900. women from London colleges were invited to live at the Settlement at 44 Nelson Square, in Southwark.

In 1901 Gladstone became the second Warden of the Blackfriars Settlement, succeeding Margaret Sewell. While dedicated to the Settlement's objectives, She found the organisational side of the Warden's position far less congenial, and stood down after five years.

Gladstone died in Hawarden in 1925.

Family Helen Gladstone was the sixth of eight children of Catherine Gladstone (nee Glynne) and William Ewart Gladstone, the Liberal politician and four-time British prime minister.

She was an avid cyclist, and would often go on rides with her sister Mary.