Baron Gardner

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Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter in the County of Stafford, is a dormant title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1806 for Sir Alan Gardner, an Admiral of the Blue and former Member of Parliament for Plymouth and Westminster. He had already been created Baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter, in the Peerage of Ireland in 1800. His son, the second Baron, was also an Admiral in the Royal Navy. In 1815 it was announced that he was to be created a Viscount, but Lord Gardner died before the patent had passed the Great Seal. On the death in 1883 of his son, the third Baron, 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.

Another member of the Gardner family was the Liberal politician Herbert Coulston Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere. He was the illegitimate son of the third Baron Gardner.