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3 unusual facts about Charles Gardiner


Charles Gardiner

The Earldom of Blessington was also revived, in 1816 for Luke's son Charles.

Charles Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington

They met Count D'Orsay (who had first become an intimate of Lady Blessington in London in 1821) in Avignon on 20 November 1822, before settling at Genoa for four months from 31 March 1823.

The Blessingtons and the new couple moved to Paris towards the end of 1828, taking up residence in the Hôtel Maréchal Ney, where the Earl suddenly died at forty-six of an apopleptic stroke in 1829.



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