Men-at-the-Bar/Cranbrook, Viscount (Rt. Hon. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy)

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by Joseph Foster
Cranbrook, Viscount (Rt. Hon. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy)
3387149Men-at-the-Bar — Cranbrook, Viscount (Rt. Hon. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy)Joseph Foster


Cranbrook, Viscount (Rt. Hon. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy), so created 4 May, 1878, G.C.S.I. 1880, P.C., D.C.L., under-secretary home department 1858-9 and secretary 1867-8, president Poor Law Board 1866-7, secretary for war 1874-8, for India 1878-80, M.P. Leominster 1856-65, Oxford Univ. 1865-78, educated at Shrewsbury and Oriel Coll., Oxon, B.A. 1836, J.P., D.L. Yorks West Riding, J.P. Kent, sometime chairman West Kent quarter sessions; he assumed the additional surname of Gathorne by royal licence 11 May, 1878, a student of the Inner Temple 16 Nov., 1831 (then aged 17), called to the bar 1 May, 1840, bencher 28 April, 1868 (3rd son of John Hardy, of Heath, Wakefield, Yorks, bar.-at-law, recorder of Leeds); born 1 Oct., 1814; married 29 March, 1838, Jane (c.i.), dau. of James Orr, Esq., of Hollywood House, co. Down, and has issue (see Foster's Peerage).

Hemsted Park, Staplehurst, Kent; 17, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W.; Carlton, Athenæum and St. Stephen's Clubs.