Background
Born at Pickwick, near Bath, Somerset, he was son of David B. Jardine (1766–1797), Unitarian minister at Bath from 1790, by his wife, a daughter of George Webster of Hampstead.
Born at Pickwick, near Bath, Somerset, he was son of David B. Jardine (1766–1797), Unitarian minister at Bath from 1790, by his wife, a daughter of George Webster of Hampstead.
David Jardine graduated Master of Arts at Glasgow University in 1813, was called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple (7 February 1823), chose the western circuit, and became recorder of Bath.
The father died on 10 March 1797, and John Prior Estlin of Bristol edited, with a memoir, two volumes of his sermons. In 1839 he was appointed police magistrate at Bow Street Magistrates" Court, London.