The Whalley-Gardiner, later Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner Baronetcy, of Roche Court in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 14 January 1783 for John Whalley-Gardiner, Member of Parliament

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 for Westbury

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. Born John Whalley, he was the cousin and heir of Sir William Gardiner, 3rd and last Baronet, of Roche Court (d. 1779), and assumed the additional surname of Gardiner on succeeding to the Gardiner estates. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Smythe. The third Baronet was High Sheriff of Hampshire

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 in 1810. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1868.

Jane Elizabeth Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, daughter of the second Baronet, was the grandmother of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe

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. Mary Anna, third daughter of the third Baronet, was the wife of the historian and Royal Navy captain Montagu Burrows

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Whalley-Gardiner, later Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner Baronets, of Roche Court (1783)

• Sir John Whalley-Gardiner, 1st Baronet (1743-1797)
• Sir James Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 2nd Baronet (1748-1805)
• Sir James Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 3rd Baronet (1785-1851)
• Sir John Brocas Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 4th Baronet (1814-1868)