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Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, I conte di Cranbrook (Bradford, 1º ottobre 1814 – Beneden, 30 ottobre 1906) è stato un politico inglese
Conte di Cranbrook, nella contea di Kent, è un titolo nel Pari del Regno Unito. È stato creato nel 1892 per il conservatore Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, I visconte di Cranbrook. Ricoprì la carica di Segretari di Stato per gli affari interni, di Segretario di Stato per la Guerra e di Segretario di Stato per l'India. Gathorne-Hardy era ...
Biografia. Era il figlio maggiore di Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, I conte di Cranbrook, e di sua moglie, Jane Orr. Assunse il cognome di "Gathorne" grazie a una licenza reale nel 1878. Carriera. Cranbrook è stato eletto alla Camera dei comuni per Rye (1868-1880), per Mid Kent (1884-1885) e Medway (1885-1892).
- Background and Education
- Early Political Career, 1847–1874
- Cabinet Minister, 1874–1880
- Tory Grandee
- Marriage and Family
- Death and Legacy
- Works by Gathorne Hardy
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Gathorne Hardy was the third son of John Hardy, Esq. and Isabel Gathorne, daughter of Richard Gathorne, Esq. of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria. His older brother was Sir John Hardy, 1st Baronet (1809–1888). His father was a barrister and businessman, the main owner of the Low Moor ironworks and also represented Bradford in Parliament as a Conservative. H...
Gathorne Hardy had unsuccessfully contested Bradford in the 1847 general election. However, after his father's death in 1855 he was able to concentrate fully on a political career, and in 1856 he was elected for Leominster. Only two years later, in 1858, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs in the second administration of the ...
In 1874, the Conservatives returned to office under Disraeli, and Hardy was appointed Secretary of State for War, for which he was not best suited. He should have been offered the Home Office, but this went to a fine debater, Richard Cross. But the House rose on 7 August, leaving the minister the remainder of the year to settle into departmental wo...
Lord Cranbrook remained at the heart of the party elite. In 1884 a new Chief Whip, Aretas Akers-Douglas gained promotion from Salisbury partly through the austere influence of this knowledgeable and experienced grandee. In early 1885 the government was rent with division, Chamberlain refusing to agree with the franchise as 'ransom' of private prope...
Lord Cranbrook married, in 1838, Jane Stewart Orr, daughter of James Orr, Esq., and his wife Jane Stewart.They had three sons and two daughters: 1. Lady Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy (died 11 July 1943), who married George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschenand had three children. 2. Lady Edith Elizabeth Gathorne-Hardy (died 8 January 1875), who...
Lord Cranbrook died at his residence of Hemsted Park, near Benenden, Kent, in October 1906, aged 92. He was succeeded in the Earldom of Cranbrook by his eldest son John. His will was proven by probate at over £274,000,equivalent to over £40 million in the present day. His obituary in The Timesstated the following:
The Afghan War(1878)The Past History of Benenden, Hawkhurst(1883)Gathorne Hardy, first Earl of Cranbrook: a Memoir with extracts from his diary and correspondence(1910)Bibliography
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John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook, VD, JP, DL (22 March 1839 – 13 July 1911) was a British hereditary peer, Conservative politician, and military officer. Early life [ edit ] Born John Stewart Hardy , Lord Cranbrook was the eldest son of the Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook ...
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st earl of Cranbrook was an English Conservative politician who was a strong proponent of British intervention in the Russo-Turkish conflict of 1877–78. Called to the bar in 1840, Hardy entered Parliament in 1856, earning a reputation as a skilled debater and a staunch.
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, OStJ, FLS, FZS, FRGS, FIBiol (born 20 June 1933), styled Lord Medway until 1978, is a British zoologist, biologist, naturalist, and peer. Since 1956, he has been active in the fields of ornithology , mammalogy , and zooarchaeology , and has influenced research and education in Southeast ...
