Sir Thomas Gardiner (1591–1652)[1] was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
When Charles I visited the city on 25 November 1641, Gardiner was knighted, and his speech specially commended by the king.
His daughter Mary was Maid of Honour to Queen Henrietta Maria in France, and one of the four Dressers to Queen Catherine after the Restoration, before marrying Sir Henry Wood, 1st Baronet.
She died of smallpox on 17 March 1671, aged 38, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
In 1679, her only child married an illegitimate son of King Charles II by Barbara Villiers, becoming Duchess of Southampton, but died of smallpox in 1680 at the age of seventeen.