| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blessington, Charles John Gardiner, Earl of, 1782-1829 NRA: Gardiner Charles John (1782-1829) Earl of Blessington LBT ID: LdBless1 VIAF ID: 24434974 LOC ID: no2009008654 | B/BAP:   1782-07-19 DIED: 1829-05-25 | 
| SOURCES: DNB ["Countess of Blessington"]; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
| The son of Luke Gardiner, first Viscount Mountjoy, educated at Eton. After a second
                        marriage to Lady Blessington in 1818 he traveled on the Continent with his wife and Count
                        D'Orsay, residing in Naples and Paris. | |
|  CORRESPONDENCE OF Charles John Gardiner, first earl of Blessington:  Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 2 April 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron  2 Vols      (London: John Murray, 1830)  Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 6 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron  2 Vols      (London: John Murray, 1830)  Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 14 April 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 14 April 1823 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron  2 Vols      (London: John Murray, 1830)  Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 22 April 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 23 April 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 7 May 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 14 May 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 23 May 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 Lord Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 24 May 1823 in  “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. I.”  in New Monthly Magazine   NS 35   (July 1832) 5-23 | |