John Starkie Gardner (1844–1930)

Metalworker, fossil collector, and writer on geology and botany. Educated abroad. Collected fossils until around 1876, when he began to sell off his collections, mainly to the British Museum; wrote on fossil plants. Part of his collection was purchased in 1887 by Bolton Museum. In 1883, founded a metal works in London; published articles on armour, silver work, seventeenth and eighteenth century ironwork, and modern metalworking. Commissioned to make the gates of Holyrood Palace for King Edward VII.