Background
He was the son of Luke Gardiner and his wife Anne, daughter of Alexander Stewart and granddaughter of William Stewart, 1st Viscount Mountjoy. On 20 March 1741 he married Florinda, daughter of Robert Norman.
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Career
From 1742 to 1760 he represented Taghmon in the Irish House of Commons. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council on 15 September 1758. 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, sometime British Ambassador to Poland.
Many of Gardiner"s Irish property documents and some maps are now at the National Library of Ireland in the manuscripts section.
