Frederick "Fritz" George Gardiner KC, (19 April 1874 – 22 August 1935) was a South African jurist and Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court.
In 1878 the family emigrated to the Cape Colony and his father became an assistant general manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa.
Gardiner finished his schooling at the Diocesan College, whereafter he completed his BA degree at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, with Literature and Philosophy as his major subjects.
After Sir Malcolm Searle was killed in a train accident in June 1926, Gardiner was appointed the Judge President of the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court on the 1st of August 1926.
[3] Gardiner married Julia Stella Clare Brailey on 8 January 1901 in the St. Saviour's Church, Claremont, Cape Town.