Bertha Gardiner
Second wife of Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829–1902), historian
About Bertha Gardiner
Lived 1845 – 1925 (aged 79–80).
Bertha Meriton Gardiner (1845–1925) was an English historian who wrote popular short books about The French Revolution and the English Civil War.
Bertha Meriton Cordery was born in Hampstead, London on 19 April 1845, the youngest daughter of John and Henrietta Cordery.
In 1875, Cordery co-authored King and Commonwealth, a history of the great rebellion with her brother-in-law James Surtees Philpotts. She researched the battlefields featured in the book herself. and The French Revolution, 1789-1795 (1883).
Gardiner also edited a collection of documents from Thomas Tanner's manuscripts about Charles I's secret negotiations in 1643 and 1644.
Gardiner had three sons with her husband before she was widowed in 1902. She died on 5 January 1925 at the Red House, River, Dover.
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Who was Bertha Gardiner?
second wife of Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1829–1902), historian
When was Bertha Gardiner born?
Bertha Gardiner was born in 1845.
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Bertha Gardiner died on 5 January 1925.
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