CRANBROOK, GATHORNE GATHORNE-HARDY, 1St EARL OF (1814-1906), British statesman, was born at Brad ford on Oct. I, 1814. After graduating at Oxford he was called to the bar. In 1856 he was returned for Leominster, and in 1865 defeated Mr. Gladstone at Oxford. In 1866 he became president of the Poor Law Board in Lord Derby's new administration. When in 1867 Walpole resigned, from dissatisfaction with Dis raeli's Reform bill, Hardy succeeded him at the Home Office. In 1874 he was secretary for war and four years later succeeded Lord Salisbury at the India Office, being raised to the peerage as Viscount Cranbrook. At the same time he had assumed the ad ditional family surname of Gathorne, which had been that of his mother. In Lord Salisbury's administrations of 1885 and 1886 Lord Cranbrook was president of the council, and upon his re tirement from public life concurrently with the resignation of the cabinet in 1892 he was raised to an earldom. He died on Oct. 3o, 1906.
See Gathorne-Hardy, zst earl of Cranbrook, a memoir with extracts from his correspondence, edited by the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (1910).