GARDNER, Alan Hyde

1850 - 1901

Alan Hyde Gardner, a second son with the same name, was born at Byculla, Bombay, India on 10 December 1850 and baptised on 12 February 1851, son of Alan Hyde Gardner (15 January 1814-11 November 1858), captain R.N., and his wife Caroline Augusta Philipps (5 May 1815-1853), youngest daughter of Charles Allen Philipps of St Bride's Hill, Pembrokeshire, who married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, London on 10 September 1844. Young Alan was a captain in the Indian Navy, he married firstly at Islington, London on 13 March 1875, Elizabeth Bult (1856-25 March 1890), eldest daughter of George Norman Bult of Nailsbourne, Somerset, Elizabeth died after an accident with a swing door at her mother's London home at Romilly Lodge, Brunswick Square on 25 March 1890. Gardner married secondly at Peterborough in 1895, Ruth Wilson (1862-1938) and in 1901, a 50-year-old watercolour artist, living at 102 London Road, Ipswich with his 38-year-old wife Ruth, who was born at Huntingdon, and his children Francis Farrington 19, Charles Philipps 17, who were born in Wales with Herbert Patrick Legge 3 and newly born Mary, both born at Ipswich, he had other issue by his first wife Gwendolen Frederica (1877-) and Alan Hyde (1878-1949). Alan Hyde Gardner was of 102 London Road, Ipswich when he died at the Bedford Temperance Hotel, Peterborough whilst on a painting tour, on 7 September 1901, aged 51. He was one of the claimants to the title Lord Gardner, but some of the Indian marriages were deemed irregular. In 1911 his 48-year-old wife Ruth was living at 95 Hatfield Road, Ipswich with her two children and she died at Horsham, Sussex in 1938.

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