Gardner Budd

Frederick Gardner Orford Budd (11 April 1904 – 9 February 1976) was an Irish judge, barrister and politician who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1966 to 1975, a Judge of the High Court from 1951 to 1966, and a Senator for the Dublin University constituency for a number of months in 1951 prior to his appointment to the High Court.

In 1925, he was a scholar of Trinity College Dublin studying Modern History and Political Science.

He was elected to Seanad Éireann as an Independent Senator in August 1951 for the Dublin University constituency. He resigned from the Seanad on 2 October 1951, following his appointment as a judge of the High Court.

Budd married Oonah Blennerhassett in August 1931 and they had one son, (Declan Budd, a High Court justice who also sat on the Court of Criminal Appeal ), and three daughters.