Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician 1st Baron Austrian-born actor

Austrian-born actor

Inhabitants of the Solomon Islands

'The Royal Mails starting from the General Post Office

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

a 19th-century copy from Speed's Map of England

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician 1st Baron Austrian-born actorGathorne 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