Lady Gardiner
(1784-1876)
16 July 1861

Volume 4, page 222, sitting number 4957.

[The previous entry in the daybooks is a portrait of General Sir Robert Gardiner. That portrait appears on page 45 of this section.]

Born in or about 1784, Caroline Mary Macleod was the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John and Lady Emily Macleod. In 1816 she married Sir Robert William Gardiner (1781-1864), veteran of the Peninsular War and Waterloo; KCB, 1814. From 1848 to 1855 her husband was Governor of Gibraltar. According to his obituary in the Times (29 June 1864), he was survived by two children, Colonel Lynedoch Gardiner, and Emily, married to Major George Freud.

Lady Caroline Mary Gardiner appears on the 1871 census, living with her son, Colonel Henry Gardiner and his family, at 31 Bryanston Square in Marylebone. She died there on 15 January 1876, at the age of 92, leaving an estate valued at £3000.