 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.