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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRANBROOK, GATHORNE GATHORNE-See also:HARDY, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1814-1906), See also:British statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bradford on the 1st of See also:October 1814, the son of See also:John Hardy, and belonged to a See also:Yorkshire See also:family. Entering upon active See also:political See also:life in 1847, eleven years after his See also:graduation at See also:Oxford, and nine years after his See also:call to the See also:bar, he offered himself as a See also:candidate for Bradford, but was unsuccessful. In 1856 he was returned for See also:Leominster, and in 1865 defeated Mr See also:Gladstone at Oxford. In 1866 he became See also:president of the Poor See also:Law See also:Board in See also:Lord See also:Derby's new See also:administration. When in 1867 Mr See also:Walpole resigned, from dissatisfaction with Mr Disraeli's Reform See also:Bill, Mr Hardy succeeded him at the See also:home See also:office. In 1874 he was secretary for See also:war; and when in 1878 Lord See also:Salisbury took the See also:foreign office upon the resignation of Lord Derby, See also:Viscount Cranbrook (as Mr Hardy became within a See also:month afterwards) succeeded him at the See also:India office. At the same See also:time he had assumed the additional family surname of Gathorne, which had been that of his See also:mother. In Lord Salisbury's administrations of 1885 and 1886 Lord Cranbrook was president of the See also:council, and upon his retirement from public life concurrently with the resignation of the See also:cabinet in 1892 he was raised to an earldom. He died on the 3oth of October 1906, being succeeded as 2nd earl by his son John See also:Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, previously known as Lord See also:Medway (b. 1839); who from 1868 to i88o sat in See also:parliament as a conservative for See also:Rye, and from 1884 to 1892 for a See also:division of See also:Kent. See Gathorne Hardy, 1st earl of Cranbrook, a memoir with extracts from his See also:correspondence, edited by the Hon. A.

E. Gathorne-Hardy (1910).

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