Family
His father was Alan Henderson Gardiner, the Egyptologist. His mother Hedwig, née von Rosen, was Austrian, though with a Jewish father and Swedish-Finnish mother. Margaret Gardiner, mother of Martin Bernal, was his sister.
The composer Henry Balfour Gardiner was his uncle (the folk-song collector George Barnet Gardiner, with whom Balfour Gardiner worked, was however not a relation). The conductor John Eliot Gardiner is his son.
The artist Howard Hodgkin is another grandson of Florence Hodgkin. Marabel's father was Stanley Howard Hodgkin, a first cousin of Roger Fry, through Mariabella Hodgkin who married Edward Fry.
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