Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, English historian, born at Ropley, Hants; his chief historical works include “History of England” in the reign of James I. and Charles I.; “History of the Civil War,” in four vols., and the “History of the Protectorate,” on which he is still engaged; a most impartial and accurate historian; (b. 1829).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gairdner, James * Gardiner, Stephen