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He was born in New York on February 25, 1911. He attended St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended Columbia University and graduated in 1934. He then attended New York University School of Law. He served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in the South West Pacific theatre during World War II.^[1]

He and his sister Alexandra Gardiner Creel inherited Gardiner's Island from their aunt, Sarah Diodati Gardiner, when she died in 1953.^[1]

Gardiner was married, but had no children..^[5]^[6] His niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had already inherited his sister's half of the estate, and inherited Gardiner's half upon his death. Gardiner and his niece were estranged, and had several legal disputes.^[7] The New York Sun reported that: "..late in life he searched unsuccessfully for a rich person with the last name Gardiner to adopt."

The long running dispute between Gardiner and his niece formed part of the background to Chrystle Fiedler's 2015 mystery novel Garden of Death.^[9]

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1. ^¹²³{{cite news |author=Robert F. Worth |title=Robert D.L. Gardiner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/24/us/robert-dl-gardiner-93-lord-of-his-own-island-dies.html |newspaper=New York Times |date= August 24, 2004 |accessdate=2014-07-27 }}
2. ^¹{{cite news | url = https://books.google.ca/books?id=R-F1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22Alexandra+Creel+Goelet%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij3KKpt8fNAhVh6IMKHQMiAVYQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Alexandra%20Creel%20Goelet%22&f=false| title = Garden of Death: A Natural Remedies Mystery| author = Chrystle Fiedler| publisher = Simon and Schuster| date = 2015-03-24| page = | accessdate = 2016-06-27| deadurl = No | quote = Until 2004, Robert Charles Lion Gardiner, the sixteenth lord of the manor, as he liked to call himself, owned it with his niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet. Now that he's gone, it's hers.}}
3. ^¹{{cite news | url = http://www.nysun.com/arts/tea-for-two-three-or-5-million/7661/| title = Tea for Two, Three, or $5 Million| publisher = New York Sun| author = Lindsay Pollock| date = 2005-01-13| page = | location = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2016-06-27| deadurl = No | quote = Gardiner's Island is now the great remaining legacy, and it has passed into the sole ownership of Robert Gardiner's niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet. She's married to the scion of another New York moneyed family and has promised to preserve the island.}}
4. ^¹{{cite news | url = http://wealthmanagement.com/estate-planning/no-standing-enforce-charitable-trust| title = No Standing to Enforce a Charitable Trust| publisher = Wealth Management| author = John T. Brooks, Jena L. Levin| date = 2015-08-25| page = | location = | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151110212630/http://wealthmanagement.com/estate-planning/no-standing-enforce-charitable-trust| archivedate = 2015-11-10| accessdate = 2016-06-27| deadurl = No | quote = }}
5. ^¹{{cite news | url = http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2016/02/02/gardiners_island_in_new_york_state_has_been_owned_by_the_same_family_and.html| title = New York’s Gardiners Island: Still in the Family After Almost 400 Years| publisher = Slate magazine| author = | date = 2016-02-02| page = | location = | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160426053046/http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2016/02/02/gardiners_island_in_new_york_state_has_been_owned_by_the_same_family_and.html| archivedate = 2016-04-26| accessdate = 2016-06-27| deadurl = No | quote = For roughly 30 years, Bob was embroiled in highly-publicized fights over the ownership and development of the island with his niece, Alexandra Creel Goelet, who eventually inherited her mother’s interest when she died.}}

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