Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner, was a British Whig politician.
Background
Gardner was the son of Admiral Alan Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner. A viscountcy was to be conferred on his father in 1815, but he died before the patent had passed the Great Seal and the title was never given to his son. He did, however, manage to get his father"s barony passed down to him instead of his father"s other son, Mr Fenton Gardner, by establishing that Fenton was illegitimate.
Career
He was also a celebrated sportsman. He sat on the Whig benches in the House of Lords and served in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1837 to 1841. Lord Gardner married firstly Frances Margaret Hughes (12 October 1814 - 3 December 1847) in 1835.
The marriage was childless.
One of Lord Gardner"s legitimate daughters, the Honorary Florence (7 February 1853 -3 August 1934), was the wife of William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, sometime Governor-General of New Zealand.
A granddaughter Lady Dorothy Onslow married Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax and became Vicereine of India. Gardner died in November 1883, aged 73, when his titles became dormant.
Lady Gardner died in 1899.
Issue, according to Fortescue website:
a son (b 1843)
Herbert Gardner (1846-1921), who married Lady Winifred Byng, née Herbert, daughter of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and had issue 4 daughters. One daughter Evelyn was the first wife of Evelyn Waugh and was thus known as "She-Evelyn". Another daughter married Geoffrey Hope-Morley, 2nd Baron Hollenden.
Honorary
Florence Coulston Gardner (7 February 1853 -3 August 1934), married William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, sometime Governor-General of New Zealand, and had issue. Honorary Evelyn Coulston Gardner (1856–1902), married 1881 William Fuller Maitland and had issue.
Membership
In his youth, Gardner was a member of the literary salon established by the Countess of Blessington and the Count Doctorate"Orsay.