Margaret Emilia Gardiner OBE was a radical modern British patron of artists and resident of Hampstead, London, from 1932, where she was also a left wing political activist. She was also for a time the
Photographed c. 1932
Barbara Hepworth's "Curved Form (Trevalgan)", which stood in Gardiner's back garden in Hampstead
Rolf Gardiner
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Henry Rolf Gardiner was an English rural revivalist who helped to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing. He also founded groups significant in the British history of
Margaret Gardiner (art collector)
…Hedwig (née von Rosen), Lady Gardiner, whose father was an Austro-Hungarian Roman Catholic with Jewish roots and mother a Swedish Finn. Her brother was Henry Rolf Gardiner. Gardiner was educated at the Fröbel School in Hammersmith, then at Bedales, the liberally-minded school, followed by Newnham College, Cambridge. There…
Rolf Gardiner at his wedding to Marabel Hodgkin in 1932. The North Skelton sword dance group form the guard of honour.