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Also Known As edit

  • Family name: Gardner
  • Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter
    • Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter (22 December 1815[1] – 2 November 1883)
  • Baron Burghclere
    • Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere (3 August 1895 – 6 May 1921)[2]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies edit

Friends edit

  • William Yardley

Organizations edit

Herbert Colstoun Gardner edit

  • Harrow
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
    • Amateur Dramatic Club
  • Canterbury Old Stagers
  • Liberal Member of Parliament, House of Commons
  • Gladstone administration
  • Rosebery administration

Timeline edit

1848, Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter and Julia Sarah Hayfield Fortescue married.[3]

1885 April 29, Alan Coulston Gardner and Hon. Nora Beatrice Blyth married.[4]

1890 March 4, Herbert Colstoun Gardner and Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana Herbert married.[5]

1895 August 3, Herbert Gardner was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Burghclere.[2]

1897 July 2, Lord and Lady Burghclere attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball at Devonshire House, as did Colonel and Mrs. Alan Gardner. Mr. Alan Gardner and Mrs. Nora Gardner were also present. (Herbert Gardner, Lord Burghclere is #129 on the list of people who attended; Lady Winifred Burghclere is #437; Mr. Alan Gardner is #625; Mrs. Nora Gardner is #626.)

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball edit

Lord and Lady Burghclere edit

Herbert Gardner, Lord Burghclere and Lady Winifred Burghclere attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.[6]:12, Col. 4c

Newspaper Descriptions of Their Costumes edit

  • "Lady Burghclere wore a lovely gown in richest old rose satin, trimmed with old gold lace tissue and superb old lace. / She personated an ancestral namesake, Lady Winifred Herbert, afterwards Countess Nithsdale, who helped her husband to escape from the Tower in 1745."[7]:42, Col. 1c–2a
  • Herbert Gardner, Lord Burghclere was dressed as a Puritan.[8]:7, Col. 4c
  • "Lord Burghclere went as Andrew Marvell, Oliver Cromwell's Foreign Secretary, in a black satin suit of the period."[7]:42, Col. 2a

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Gardner edit

Mr. Alan Gardner and Mrs. Nora Gardner also attended.[9]

Demographics edit

  • Nationality: British[10]

Family edit

  • Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter (29 January 1810 – 2 November 1883)[11]
  • Frances Margaret Hughes ( – 8 December 1847)[12]
  • Julia Sarah Hayfield Fortescue ( – 3 November 1899)[3]
    1. Hon. Florence Coulston Gardner ( – 8 August 1934)
    2. Hon. Evelyn Coulston Gardner ( – 12 April 1902)
    3. Colonel Alan Coulston Gardner ( – 25 December 1907)
    4. Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st and last Baron Burghclere of Walden (9 June 1846 – 6 May 1921)


  • Colonel Alan Coulston Gardner ( – 25 December 1907)[13]
  • Hon. Nora Beatrice Blyth (1866 – 5 January 1944)[4]
    1. Alan Hillier Henry Gardner (1887 – )
    2. Lt.-Col. Clarence Evelyn Gardner (c. 1889 – 9 March 1950)


  • Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere (9 June 1846 – 6 May 1921)[10]
  • Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana Herbert (2 July 1864 – 28 September 1933)[5]
  1. Hon. Juliet Mary Evelyn Stanhope Gardner (14 June 1892 – )
  2. Hon. Alethea Margaret Gwendolin Valentine Gardner (19 August 1893 – )
  3. Hon. Mary Sidney Katharine Almina Gardner (27 August 1896 – 11 March 1994)
  4. Hon. Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner (27 September 1903 – 11 March 1994

Notes and Questions edit

  1. Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter's title died with him because his sons were born he married Julia Fortescue.[2]
  2. This Mr. Alan Gardner more likely than others because his brother was also part of this social network.
  3. Why did Truth cover the Burghcleres when essentially no other newspaper did? (Although the Morning Post does at least mention him.)

Footnotes edit

  1. ↑ "Admiral Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p2870.htm#i28692.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st and last Baron Burghclere of Walden." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Julia Sarah Hayfield Fortescue." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3769.htm#i37684.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Hon. Nora Beatrice Blyth." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p8143.htm#i81422.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana Herbert." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12 [of 20], Cols. 1a–4c [of 6] The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 “Girls’ Gossip.” Truth 8 July 1897, Thursday: 41 [of 70], Col. 1b – 42, Col. 2c. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002961/18970708/089/0041.
  8. ↑ "Fancy Dress Ball at Devonshire House." Morning Post Saturday 3 July 1897: 7 [of 12], Col. 4a–8 Col. 2b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970703/054/0007.
  9. ↑ "County and Other Items." Chelmsford Chronicle Friday 2 July 1897: 5 [of 8], Col. 3c. British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000322/18970702/014/0005.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere". Wikipedia. 2020-10-30. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Gardner,_1st_Baron_Burghclere&oldid=986239687. 
  11. ↑ "Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3769.htm#i37683.
  12. ↑ "Frances Margaret Hughes." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p3769.htm#i37686.
  13. ↑ "Colonel Alan Coulston Gardner." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-10-16. https://www.thepeerage.com/p8143.htm#i81421.
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