Trevor Gardner

Trevelyan Codrington "Trevor" Gardner (3 August 1917 – 24 September 1997) was a British colonial and university administrator. He was Minister of Finance of Northern Rhodesia from 1959 to 1964, also serving as a member of the Legislative Council, and later treasurer of Wolfson College, Cambridge from 1969 to 1983.

Biography Born in Portsmouth in 1917, Gardner was educated at Taunton's School in Southampton before attending the Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics and earned a Bachelor of Letters. After graduating he joined the Hampshire Regiment during World War II.

Following the war Gardner joined the Colonial Service and was appointed to a post in Fort Jameson in Northern Rhodesia. He spent most of his time in the capital Lusaka, and in 1959 was appointed Minister of Finance, a post he held until 1964. He was made a CBE in the 1960 Birthday Honours.

After returning to the UK, Gardner started working for the University of Cambridge, where he became deputy treasurer of Wolfson College. He was also an honorary fellow of Darwin College.

He died in Cambridge in 1997 aged 80.