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Gathorne Hardy (1814-1906), 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician. Hardy 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. Illustration from The Life & Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Vol III.