Herbert Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere

The Right Honourable The Lord Burghclere PC
"amateur theatricals". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1886.
President of the Board of Agriculture
In office 25 August 1892 – 21 June 1895
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by	Henry Chaplin
Succeeded by	Walter Long
Personal details
Born	9 June 1846 (1846-06-09)
Died	6 May 1921 (1921-05-07) (aged 74)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Lady Winifred Herbert (d. 1933)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere PC (9 June 1846 – 6 May 1921) was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895. He served as President of the Board of Agriculture between 1892 and 1895.

Gardner was the son of Alan Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner, by his second wife, the professional actress Juliah Sarah (née Fortescue). However, he was born two years before his parents' marriage and was consequently not allowed to succeed in the barony of Gardner on his father's death in 1883. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was a member and eventually manager of the Amateur Dramatic Club which was 'flourishing exceedingly' under his management. He later acted with the Canterbury Old Stagers for whom he and William Yardley wrote some of the best plays and epilogues they produced. In 1867 Gardner was admitted at Inner Temple and was a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex.

At the 1885 general election Gardner was elected Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden, a seat he held until 1895. He served in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and later Lord Rosebery as President of the Board of Agriculture from 1892 to 1895. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1892 and in 1895 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burghclere, of Walden in the County of Essex.