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Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, English politician, 1881. 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. An engraving from Alexander Charles Ewald's The Right Hon Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, and His Times, William Mackenzie, (London, 1881).