Irish politician
Charles Gardiner (21 February 1720 – 20 November 1769) was an Irish landowner and politician.
He was the son of Luke Gardiner and his wife Anne,[ 1] daughter of Alexander Stewart and granddaughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy .[ 2] He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin .[ 3] On 20 March 1741 he married Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman.[ 1]
From 1742 to 1760 he represented Taghmon in the Irish House of Commons .[ 4] He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council on 15 September 1758.[ 5]
Gardiner inherited the estates of his mother's family, the Stewarts,[ 1] following the death of William Stewart , 3rd Viscount Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Blessington , on 14 August 1769. He died later the same year and was succeeded by his eldest son Luke , for whom the Mountjoy title was revived in 1785. The Earldom of Blessington was also revived, in 1816 for Luke's son Charles .
Charles Gardiner's other children included a daughter Anne , later Countess of Clancarty , and William Neville Gardiner ,[ 1] sometime British Ambassador to Poland .[ 6]
Many of Gardiner's Irish property documents and some maps are now at the National Library of Ireland in the manuscripts section.[ 7]
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^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 2" Cotton, H. p3i7 Dublin , Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^ Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons . Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes) . Ulster Historical Foundation.
^ "Privy Council of Ireland" . Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages . Archived from the original on 7 June 2008.{{cite web }}
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^ Gardiner Papers, Mss. 36,501-36,626; Collection List 67, accessions no. 1118.