The Gardiner Baronetcy, of Roche Court in the County of Southampton, was a title in the

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. It was created on 24 December 1660 for Sir William Gardiner,

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for

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, Lancashire, River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. Bolton lies to the nor ...

. The second Baronet was a Commissioner of the Stamp Office from 1713 until 1739.R. Beatson, ''A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland: or, A Complete Register'', etc., 3rd Edition, 3 vols (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London 1806), II
pp. 378–80
(Internet Archive). The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1779. The late Baronet left his estates to his cousin John Whalley, of

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, who assumed the additional surname of Gardiner and was created a baronet, of Roche Court in the County of Southampton, in 1783. See

Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner baronets The Whalley-Gardiner, later Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner Baronetcy, of Roch(e) Court in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 14 January 1783 for John Whalley-Gardiner, Member of Parliament for ...

for further history of this title.

Gardiner baronets, of Roche Court (1660)

Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet (9 May 1628 – 23 June 1691) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Gardiner was the son of Robert Gardiner of Wigan and his wife Mary Palmer. In 1660, Gardiner was elected Me ...

(–1691) *Sir Brocas Gardiner, 2nd Baronet (c. 1664–1740) *Sir William Gardiner, 3rd Baronet (c. 1700–1779)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gardiner Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England

Gardiner baronets, of Roche Court (1660)

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