{{Short description|Title in the Peerage of Ireland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox hereditary title | name = Baron Gardner | image = 130px|center150px|center | image_size = | alt = | caption = | creation_date = 23 December 1800 (Ire)<br>27 November 1806 (UK) | creation = | monarch = King George III (Ire & UK) | peerage = Peerage of Ireland<br>Peerage of the United Kingdom | baronetage = Gardner of Uttoxeter | first_holder = Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (Ire & UK) | last_holder = Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner (Ire & UK) | present_holder = | heir_apparent = | heir_presumptive = | remainder_to = The 1st Baron's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten (Ire & UK). | subsidiary_titles = | status = Dormant (2 November 1883) | extinction_date = | family_seat = | former_seat = | motto = | footnotes = }} [[File:Vice-Admiral Lord Alan Gardner (1742-1809), by William Beechey.jpg|thumb|Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner]] '''Baron Gardner''', of Uttoxeter, is a dormant title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Sir Alan Gardner, an Admiral of the Blue and former Member of Parliament for Plymouth and Westminster. In 1806, he was also created '''Baron Gardner''', of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His son, the second Baron, was also an Admiral in the Royal Navy. In 1815, it was announced that he was to be created a viscount, but Lord Gardner died before the patent had passed the Great Seal.
He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. He was a Whig politician and served as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1837 to 1841. On his death in 1883 the peerages became dormant. They were claimed by Alan Gardner, grandson of the second son of the first Baron, who styled himself "Lord Gardner", but neither he nor any other male-line descendant have been able to prove their claim to the titles satisfactorily. It has been suggested by William Dalrymple that the current heir to the barony is from the Gardner family of Khasgunge (now Kasganj), Uttar Pradesh, India.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/08/india.lords Peer into the past – Guardian News and Media]</ref>
Another member of the Gardner family was the Liberal politician Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere. He was the illegitimate son of the third Baron Gardner.
==Barons Gardner, first and second creations (1800, 1806)== *Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner (1742–1809) *Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner (1771–1815) *Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner (1810–1883)
==See also== *Baron Burghclere
==Notes== {{refimprove|date=August 2013}} {{reflist}}
==References== *{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/395 | location=London |publisher=Dean & Son|page=395}} *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *{{London Gazette |issue=13693 |date=12 August 1794 |page=828 }} *{{London Gazette |issue=15326 |date=6 January 1801 |page=40 }} *{{London Gazette |issue=15974 |date=11 November 1806 |page=1479 }}
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