Thomas Gardner (antiquary)

In 1719 he published A Pocket-Guide to the English Traveller, containing 100 road maps; it was the first small-scale edition of John Ogilby's Britannia of 1675.

He was an intelligent antiquary, making numerous local discoveries, and accumulating large collections, particularly of coins.

In 1745 he exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries "A true and exact platt, containing the boundaries of the town of Dunwich, and the entries of certain records and evidences, and some things now in variance made the 14th of March 1589, by Ralph Agas".

Agas's report of the state of the town and harbour referred to above is printed from the original manuscript then in Gardner's possession on pp. 20–2.

[1] Gardner died in 1769, aged 79, and was buried in Southwold churchyard near the south aisle, between his two wives Rachel and Mary, with the following inscription:[2] Betwixt honour and virtue here doth lie The remains of old antiquity.