Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP (24 March 1940 – 8 November 2022) was a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2003 to 2016.

Gardiner was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum and was party whip in the same in 1996–1998.

[3] Gardiner was a High Sheriff for County Armagh and was appointed a justice of the peace.

He was also a member of the Orange Order, Deputy Sovereign Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution and former chairman of Glenavon F.C.. Gardiner died on 8 November 2022, at the age of 82.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (since 1998) is a stub.