The Gardiner Baronetcy, of Roche Court in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 24 December 1660 for Sir William Gardiner

Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet

Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet 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....

, Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Wigan

Wigan (UK Parliament constituency)

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. The second Baronet was a Commissioner of the Stamp Office. 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 Tackley

Tackley

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, Oxfordshire

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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

Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner Baronets

The Whalley-Gardiner, later Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner Baronetcy, of Roche 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 Westbury. Born John Whalley, he was the cousin and heir...

 for further history of this title.

Gardiner Baronets, of Roche Court (1660)

• Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Gardiner, 1st Baronet 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....
  
  (c. 1618–1691)
• Sir Brocas Gardiner, 2nd Baronet (c. 1664–1740)
• Sir William Gardiner, 3rd Baronet (c. 1700–1779)