Henry John Gardiner (businessman)

For the Australian politician, see Harry Gardiner. For the composer, see Henry Balfour Gardiner.
For the Governor of Massachusetts, see Henry Gardner. For the economist, see Henry B. Gardner. For similar names, see Harry Gardner.
H. J. Gardiner in 1920, painted by Sir Luke Fildes

Henry John Gardiner, (born 1843, died 2 February 1940),[1] was an English businessman who made an immense fortune in the clothing industry (colloquially known as the 'rag trade'), as chairman of various drapery warehousing and wholesale firms, and other business investments. His life was relatively uneventful, and he divided his time between his business affairs in London and shooting in the Hampshire countryside. He had two sons who profited from his enormous wealth, H. Balfour Gardiner, composer and patron of British classical music, and Sir Alan H. Gardiner, a renowned Egyptologist who was present at the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922.

  1. ^ Lloyd 2005, p. 2.