Dr Armen Sarkissian, the President of Armenia from 2018 to 2022, visited Gladstone’s Library on May 22 2023 to mark the Library’s Founder’s Day celebrations

THE FORMER President of Armenia visited a Flintshire library to pay respects to its founder, William Gladstone.  

Dr Sarkissian and his delegation was hosted by the library team, led by Warden Andrea Russell, and Trustees of the library, including Patrick Derham, former headmaster of Westminster School and Charles Gladstone, a direct descendant of the Victorian statesman William Gladstone.During a one-hour talk, held in the library’s world-famous Reading Rooms, Dr Sarkissian thanked the library, which is a registered charity, for welcoming him, and emphasized the need for strong leaders like William Gladstone, four times British Prime Minister, and for learning spaces like Gladstone’s Library.