Robert Richardson-Gardner (15 June 1827 – 4 January 1898) was a British barrister, militia officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1890.
Richardson-Gardner was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, the son of John and Elizabeth Richardson, and was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1853, although he did not practice as a barrister.
[4] On both occasions the unsuccessful candidate petitioned without success to have the result overthrown, citing bribery and corruption.
Richardson-Gardner resigned his seat in 1890, after the death of his wife the previous year at Chateau Louis XIII,[8] their spectacular home in Cannes, France.
[9] In 1892 he married the young actress, Rosalie Lilian Aurora Bernard, who unsuccessfully petitioned him for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and adultery in 1894.