GARDINER, JAMES (1688-1745), Scottish soldier, was born at Carriden in Linlithgowshire, on Jan. I I, 1688. The circum stances of his death (Sept. 21, 1745) are described in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley. In his early years he was reckless and profligate, but in 1719 a vision of Christ on the Cross led to his conversion, and from that time he lived a life of great devoutness.
See P. Doddridge, Life of James Gardiner (1747, often reprinted) .