Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington

Landowner.

The family were absentee landlords in Ireland. The ODNB entry for his wife says: ‘In 1845 the potato disease seriously affected her jointure; after rapidly dwindling, it disappeared in 1848’. (William H. Scheuerlein, ‘Gardiner [née Power; other married name Farmer], Marguerite [Margaret], countess of (1789–1849)’, in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [online], Oxford 1992 -, <https://doi-org.lonlib.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2640> accessed 6 August 2021.)

No known connections with abolition.

Donor: bequeathed in 1837: NG79 (now at Tate, N00079).

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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