Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere
| The Right Honourable The Lord Burghclere PC | |
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"amateur theatricals". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1886. | |
| President of the Board of Agriculture | |
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In office 25 August 1892 – 21 June 1895 | |
| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister |
William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery |
| Preceded by | Henry Chaplin |
| Succeeded by | Walter Long |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 June 1846 |
| Died | 6 May 1921 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) |
Lady Winifred Herbert (d. 1933) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere PC (9 June 1846 – 6 May 1921) was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895. He served as President of the Board of Agriculture between 1892 and 1895.
Background and education
Gardner was the son of Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner, by his second wife, the professional actress Juliah Sarah (née Fortescue). However, he was born two years before his parents' marriage and was consequently not allowed to succeed in the barony of Gardner on his father's death in 1883. He was educated at Harrow[1] and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.[2] At Cambridge, he was a member and eventually manager of the Amateur Dramatic Club which was 'flourishing exceedingly' under his management. He later acted with the Canterbury Old Stagers for whom he and William Yardley wrote some of the best plays and epilogues they produced.[2] In 1867 Gardner was admitted at Inner Temple and was a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex.[3]
Political career
At the 1885 general election Gardner was elected Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden, a seat he held until 1895. He served in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery as President of the Board of Agriculture from 1892 to 1895.[4] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1892 and in 1895 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burghclere, of Walden in the County of Essex.[5]
Gardner was a director of the P and O Steamship Company. He was an Ecclesiastical Commissioner from 1903 to 1921 and chairman of Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. Gardner was also an author of several novels, and of the comedies Time will tell, Our Bitterest Foe, After Dinner and Cousin Zacchary. He published a translation of Virgil's Georgics in 1904.
Family
Lord Burghclere married Lady Winifred Anne Henrietta Christiana, daughter of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and widow of Captain the Hon. Alfred John George Byng, in 1890. They had four daughters. His youngest daughter, Evelyn, was the first wife of the author Evelyn Waugh. Lord Bughclere died in May 1921, aged 74. As he had no sons the barony became extinct on his death. Lady Burghclere died in September 1933, aged 69.[1]
Appraisal of Lady Winifred Burghclere and her daughters
Author William Cross, FSA Scot is currently writing a book to publish in 2017 on Lady Winifred Burghclere and her four racy and remarkable daughters, Juliet ( 1892-1974), Alethea ( 1893-1968), Mary ( 1896-1994) and Evelyn ( 1903-1994). The book will explore how the girls each sent heads turning ( not least their mother's ) with their antics, marriages and relationships in the period during and after the Great War, and into the roaring 1920s - the era of the Bright Young Things, with its own take on morality.
References
- 1 2 thepeerage.com Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st and last Baron Burghclere of Walden
- 1 2 "Gardner, Herbert Colstoun (GRDR864HC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ↑ Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Herbert Gardner
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26649. p. 4364. 2 August 1895.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Books
- Lady Winifred Burghclere and her troublesome daughters. Four immoral tales from the Roaring Twenties. by William Cross. ISBN 978-1-905914-41-8 (2017) Book Midden Publishing.
External links
- Books by Winifred Anne Henrietta Christine Herbert Gardner Burghclere
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Herbert Gardner
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden 1885–1895 |
Succeeded by Charles Gold |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Henry Chaplin |
President of the Board of Agriculture 1892–1895 |
Succeeded by Walter Long |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Burghclere 1895–1921 |
Extinct |
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