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JAMES GARDINER (1688-1745)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 460 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:GARDINER (1688-1745)  , Scottish soldier, was See also:born at Carriden in See also:Linlithgowshire, on the 11th of See also:January 1688 . At the See also:age of fourteen he entered a Scottish See also:regiment in the Dutch service, and was afterwards See also:present at the See also:battle of See also:Ramillies, where he was wounded . He subsequently served in different See also:cavalry regiments, and in 1730 was advanced to the. See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel, and in 1743 to that of colonel . He See also:fell at- the battle of See also:Prestonpans, the 21st of See also:September 1745 . The circumstances of his See also:death are described in See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott's Waverley . In his See also:early years he was distinguished for his recklessness and profligacy, but in 1719 a supernatural See also:vision, as he regarded it, led to his See also:conversion, and from that See also:time he lived a See also:life of See also:great devoutness and of thorough consistency with his See also:Christian profession . Dr See also:Alexander See also:Carlyle of Inveresk, author of an autobiography, says that he was " very ostentatious " about his conversion—speaks of him as weak, and plainly thinks there was a great See also:deal of delusion in See also:Col . See also:Gardiner's See also:account of his sins . His life was written by Dr See also:Philip See also:Doddridge and has been often reprinted .

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