George Gardiner

George Barnet Gardiner, Scottish folk-song collector, c.1852-1910. Born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Perthshire, he was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and then taught for much of his life at the Edinburgh Academy. H.E.D. Hammond joined the staff of the Academy in 1890, and the two men became friends. From 1904 they embarked on a major programme of folk-song collecting in South West England, with Gardiner concentrating on the county of Hampshire, until he gave up collecting in 1909.

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