Family
Gardiner is the son of the British rural revivalist Rolf Gardiner, and the grandson of the Egyptologist Alan Henderson Gardiner. He was married to violinist Elizabeth Wilcock from 1981 to 1997; they have three daughters. In 2001 he married Isabella de Sabata, granddaughter of conductor Victor de Sabata. In his spare time, Gardiner runs an organic farm at Springhead in North Dorset, which was set up by his great uncle, composer Henry Balfour Gardiner.
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