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Luke Gardiner

Irish property developer and politician

Field	Value
name	Luke Gardiner
birth_date	1690
birth_place	Dublin
death_date
resting_place	Dublin, Ireland
occupation	Property developer, landowner, politician and banker
relatives	Charles Gardiner (son)
Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (grandson)

Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (grandson)

Luke Gardiner (c. 1690 – 25 September 1755) was an Irish property developer and politician.

In the Irish House of Commons he represented Tralee from 1725 until 1727 and Thomastown from 1727 until his death in 1755. He was appointed to the Irish Privy Council on 2 August 1737.

Early life

He was possibly a son of James Gardiner of the Coombe and whose name was likely of French origin.

In 1711, he married Anne Stewart. Their son Charles also served as an MP and Privy Counsellor.

By 1717, he was recorded as living at Cork Hill.

Career

He was the senior partner in the private bank Gardiner and Hill with Arthur Hill-Trevor on Castle Street until its dissolution in 1739.

During his career Gardiner acquired a wide variety of land and properties throughout Dublin city. The major continuous part, much of which he purchased from the Moore family in 1714, |url-status = dead

As owner of this land, Gardiner led the development of the Northside of the city east along the river, developing what is now O'Connell Street (then Sackville Street and often referred to as Gardiner's Mall), Dorset Street, Parnell Street and Square (then Rutland Street & Square), and Mountjoy Square.

After his death, his son and heir Charles continued the development, finishing Rutland Square before his grandson, Luke Gardiner (later Lord and Viscount Mountjoy) inherited the estate and accelerated the development further East.

References

"PRIVY COUNSELLORS - IRELAND".
"IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS 1692-1800IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS 1692-1800".
"Gardiner, Luke {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography".
(1964). "Messrs. Gardiner & Hill: Bankers". Dublin Historical Record.

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