Alford Dalrymple Gardner (12 January 1926 – 1 October 2024) was a Jamaican-born "Windrush generation" emigrant and co-founder of the first Caribbean cricket club in Britain.
After experiencing the lack of employment opportunities in his home country, Gardner secured a ticket for the HMT Empire Windrush, which brought him back to England.
[4] Gardner returned to England with his brother in 1948 on the HMT Empire Windrush,[2] the ship that is primarily remembered today for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war West Indian immigrants to the United Kingdom.
[9] In the munitions factory near Leeds that made tanks, Gardner was repeatedly turned down for work in the late 1940s because he was not allowed to join the company's union.
[10] Gardner set up Britain's first Caribbean cricket club with fellow Jamaican RAF veterans Errol James, Hubert "Glen" English and Charles Dawkins.
Gardner's portrait was one of ten commissioned by King Charles III to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.