Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter, is a dormant title in the Peerage of Ireland

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. It was created in 1800 for Sir Alan 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:...

, an Admiral of the Blue and former Member of Parliament

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 for Plymouth

Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and Westminster

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. In 1806 he was also created Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. His son, the second Baron, was also an Admiral in the Royal Navy

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

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, but Lord Gardner died before the patent had passed the Great Seal.

He was succeeded by his son, the third Baron. He was a Whig politician and served as a Lord-in-Waiting

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 (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1837 to 1841. On his death in 1883 the peerages became dormant. They were claimed by Alan Hyde Gardner, grandson of the second son of the first Baron, who styled himself "Lord Gardner", but neither he nor any other male-line descendant have been able to prove their claim to the titles satisfactorily. It has been suggested by William Dalrymple that the current heir to the barony is Julian Gardner of Khasgunge, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

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, India

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.

Another member of the Gardner family was the Liberal

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 politician Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere

Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere

Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere PC was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895...

. He was the illegitimate son of the third Baron Gardner.

Barons Gardner (1800; 1806)

• 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:...
  
   (1742–1809)
• Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner
  Alan Hyde Gardner, 2nd Baron Gardner
  Alan Hyde Gardner, KCB, 2nd Baron Gardner was the son of Admiral Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner, and followed his father into the Royal Navy. In 1796 he was captain of the frigate , and in 1805 of the 74 gun - in the latter he was present at the action off Ferrol in 1805 and led the vanguard...
  
   (1771–1815)
• Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner (1810–1883)