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Born in Epsom on 23 February 1904, the 4th son of Edward Norman Gardiner, a schoolmaster, he was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne, Greenwich and Dartmouth before coming up to Corpus in 1933 as a Service Student: he achieved a 2nd class degree in Physics in 1936, rowed and was both Captain of Swimming and Water Polo (in 1934-1935). He then worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough before re-joining the navy. He was killed in action on HMS Hermes on 9 April 1942 (aged 38).