 John Dunn Gardner

John Gardner (20 July 1811 – 11 January 1903), formerly of Soham Mere and later of Chatteris House, Isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, known as John Townshend until 1843 and sometimes styled "Earl of Leicester", was a British politician and landowner.He is otherwise notable in relation to the tangled marital history of his mother, the Marchioness Townshend.Baptised John Townshend on 26 December 1823 at St. George's, Bloomsbury, he was the eldest surviving son of the brewer John Margetts and the heiress Sarah (née Dunn Gardner), estranged wife of George Townshend, 3rd Marquess Townshend.