Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician 1st Baron American film producer

American film producer

Louisa Pierpont Morgan (1866-1946) and John Pierpont 'Jack' Morgan Jr (1867-1943)

1st Baron Avebury FRS (1834-1914) and kept within a small portfolio of notes for subsequent editions of his book Prehistoric Times (1865)

'The Royal Mails starting from the General Post Office

11th August 1958

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician 1st Baron American film producerGathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician, c1890. Hardy (1814 1906) first entered Parliament as a Conservative member for Leominster in 1856. In 1865 he enjoyed the distinction of defeating William Gladstone in winning the parliamentary seat of Oxford. He served in various ministerial posts in Conservative governments between 1866 and his retirement from public life in 1892, at which time he was made an Earl. A lithograph