Lady Gardiner

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. She left an estate valued at £3000.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 16 July 1861.

[From an album compiled by Mrs Marianne Charlotte Isabelle Gilbert, wife of Colonel Walter Raleigh Gilbert of Priory House, Bodmin, Cornwall.]