Alan Hyde Gardner, KCB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

, 2nd Baron Gardner (5 February 1770 – 22 December 1815) was the son of Admiral Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner

Admiral Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner was a British Royal Navy officer and peer of the realm. He became one of the Georgian era's most dashing frigate captains and, ultimately, a respected senior admiral.-Naval career:...

, and followed his father into the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. In 1796 he was captain of the frigate http://books.google.com/books?id=YWUBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=%22alan+hyde+gardner%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=DZZ-RtnWGr&sig=yhDfloV1bwl2TNcOgi4A3BoXr28#PPA115,M1, and in 1805 of the 74 gun  http://books.google.com/books?id=iXw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=%22alan+hyde+gardner%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=E9UuA_WDSy&sig=d7JTeazmx34Agz5EiGlv_zgEZlw#PPA150,M1 - in the latter he was present at the action off Ferrol

Ferrol, A Coruña

Ferrol , sometimes in Spanish El Ferrol, is a city in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, located on the Atlantic coast in north-western Spain...

 in 1805 http://books.google.com/books?id=iXw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=%22alan+hyde+gardner%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=E9UuA_WDSy&sig=d7JTeazmx34Agz5EiGlv_zgEZlw and led the vanguard at the Battle of Cape Finisterre

Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)

In the Battle of Cape Finisterre off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the Combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from the West Indies...

 later that year. http://books.google.com/books?id=4uwLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22alan+hyde+gardner%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=mkdawo0j0O&sig=49jWvbkDkptIRTKKBhi8_fqEJEM

In 1815 it was announced that he was to be created a Viscount

Viscount

A viscount or viscountess is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl or a count .-Etymology:...

, but he died before the patent

Letters patent

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 had passed the Great Seal. He passed on the title of Baron Gardner

Baron Gardner

Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter, is a dormant title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Sir Alan Gardner, an Admiral of the Blue and former Member of Parliament for Plymouth and Westminster. In 1806 he was also created Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford, in the...

 to his son, Alan

Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner

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...

.

Marriage and issue

1. His first marriage was to Maria Elizabeth Adderley, on 9 March 1796 - she was the daughter of Thomas Adderley and Margaretta Bourke. The couple divorced in 1805.
2. His second marriage was to Charlotte Elizabeth Smith, and occurred on 10 April 1809. She was the daughter of Robert Smith
   Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
   Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington FRS was a British Member of Parliament and banker.Smith was the third son of Abel Smith and his wife Mary . His grandfather Abel Smith was the third son of Thomas Smith, the founder of Smith's Bank of Nottingham. Smith was elected to the House of Commons for...
   
   , 1st Baron Carrington
   Baron Carrington
   Baron Carrington is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England, once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1643 in favour of Sir Charles Smyth. Only a few days later he was created...
   
    of Upton and Anne Boldero-Barnard. The couple had one daughter, Charlotte Susannah Gardner.

External links

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