Paternal Family Tree: Gardner
On 5th February 1770 Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner was born to [his father] Alan Gardner 1st Baron Gardner [aged 27].
On 9th March 1796 Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 26] and Maria Elizabeth Adderley Baroness Gardner [aged 20] were married at either Fort George, Chennai, or Fort George, West Indies.
In 1800 [his father] Alan Gardner 1st Baron Gardner [aged 57] was created 1st Baron Gardner.
In 1805 Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 34] and Maria Elizabeth Adderley Baroness Gardner [aged 29] were divorced. He discovered his wife's adultery and secret delivery of a child in June 1803. He brought about an ecclesiastical suit followed by an Act of Parliament citing her adultery with a Henry Jadis who fathered her son born in 1803, Henry Fenton Gardner, who was declared illegitimate by the House of Lords in 1825.
On 1st January 1809 [his father] Alan Gardner 1st Baron Gardner [aged 66] died. His son Alan [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Baron Gardner.
On 10th April 1809 Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 39] and Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Baroness Gardner were married. She by marriage Baroness Gardner.
On 29th January 1810 [his son] Alan Legge Gardner 3rd Baron Gardner was born to Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 39] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Baroness Gardner. He married (1) 1835 Frances Margaret Hughes Baroness Gardner (2) December 1848 Julia Sarah Hayfield Fortescue Baroness Gardner.
On 29th December 1810 [his daughter] Charlotte Susannah Gardner was born to Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 40] and [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Baroness Gardner. She married 1835 Edward Harbord 4th Baron Suffield, son of Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield and Georgiana Venables-Vernon Baroness Suffield.
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Around February 1811 [his wife] Charlotte Elizabeth Smith Baroness Gardner died probably as a consequence of having given birth to two children [his son] Alan Legge Gardner 3rd Baron Gardner [aged 1] and [his daughter] Charlotte Susannah Gardner, in January and December respectively the previous year.
The London Gazette 17066. Whitehall, September 30, 1815.
His Royal, Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the Dignities of Earl and Marquess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Right Honourable George James Earl of Cholmondeley [aged 66], and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Earl of Rocksavage, in the county palatine of Chester, and Marquess Cholmondeley. [Note. Georgina Charlotte Bertie Marchioness Cholmondeley [aged 54] by marriage Marchioness Cholmondeley.]
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable James Walter [aged 40], Viscount Grimston, of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, and Baron Verulam of Gorhambury, in the county of Hertford, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Grimston and Earl Verulam.
His Royal Highness has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable Charles Viscount Whitworth [aged 63], Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, His Majesty's Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Baron Adbaston, in the county of Stafford, and Earl Whitworth.
His Royal Highness has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable John Lord Brownlow [aged 36], and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Alford, of Alford in the county of Lincoln, and Earl Brownlow.
His Royal Highness has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignity of Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable John Craggs Lord Eliot [aged 54], and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Earl of Saint Germains, in the county of Cornwall.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable John Lord Boringdon [aged 43], and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stiles, and titles of Viscount Boringdon, of North Malton, in the County of Devon, and Earl Morley, of Morley in the said county.
His Royal Highness bas also been pleased, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable Orlando Baron Bradford [aged 53], and the heirs mile of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Newport, in the county of Salop, and Earl of Bradford, in the said, county. [Note. Lucy Elizabeth Byng Countess Bradford [aged 48] by marriage Countess Bradford.]
His Royal Highness has also been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable William Baron Beauchamp [aged 68], of Powyke, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, stiles, and titles of Viscount Elmley, in the county of Worcester, and Earl of Beauchamp. [Catherine Denn Countess Beauchamp by marriage Countess Beauchamp.]
His Royal Highness has also been pleased, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty to grant the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Right Honourable Alan Hyde Lord Gardner [aged 45], Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's fleet, by the name, stile, and title of Viscount Gardner. [Note. He died before the patent had passed the Great Seal so the patent was null and void.]
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On 22nd December 1815 Alan Hyde Gardner 2nd Baron Gardner [aged 45] died. His son Alan [aged 5] succeeded 3rd Baron Gardner.
On 4th December 1831 [his former wife] Maria Elizabeth Adderley Baroness Gardner [aged 55] died.