NEVILE GARDINER

'Nevile Gardiner', (1902-54) was a noted British diplomat. He was brother of Baron Gerald Gardiner (Lord Chancellor 1964-70), his father was Sir Robert Septimus Gardiner and his mother was Alice von Ziegesar (daughter of Count von Ziegesar). He was educated at Oxford, and entered the British Civil Service, originally posted to Washington, D.C. He eventually became Commercial Secretary in the Diplomatic Service at The Hague, Netherlands. In 1954, on an official visit to the Philippine Islands, he was bitten by a poisonous insect, and after being rushed to the American Hospital, died within 48 hours. He was survived by his wife, Madeleine Michelson (daughter of Dr. Albert A. Michelson, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics), who later married to Frederick F. Mueller.