Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth
Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth, (18 June 1829 – 13 October 1902) was a British Member of Parliament.
Gurdon was the eldest son of Brampton Gurdon (1797–1881), of Letton Hall in Norfolk and of Grundisburgh Hall in Suffolk, who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from Norfolk.
His mother Henrietta Susanna Ridley-Colborne (1810–1880) was the daughter of Lord Colborne, another Member of Parliament.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1856.
His early career saw him practicing on the Northern Circuit.
Gurdon was elected to the House of Commons for South Norfolk as a Liberal in 1880, after having tried unsuccessfully in the elections of 1871 and 1874.
He held the seat until 1885, when he was returned for Mid Norfolk.
In 1886, he split with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone over Irish Home Rule, and joined the Liberal Unionists.
Gurdon continued to represent Mid Norfolk until 1892, and then again briefly in 1895.
He was Chairman of the Norfolk County Council from its institution and until early 1902, when he resigned due to ill health.
He was also chairman of quarter sessions, an honorary colonel of the 4th Volunteer battalion, Norfolk Regiment, and a Deputy lieutenant and Justice of the peace for Norfolk.
In 1899 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth, of Letton and Cranworth in the County of Norfolk.
Lord Cranworth married firstly, in 1862, Harriott Ellin Miles, daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet, and they had a daughter, Amy Harriott Gurden, in 1864.
After her death in childbirth in 1864 he married secondly, in 1874, Emily Frances Heathcote, daughter of Robert Boothby Heathcote.
Lord Cranworth died aged 73 at his residence Letton Hall, near Thetford, on 13 October 1902, and was succeeded in the barony by his son from his second marriage Bertram Francis Gurdon.
Lady Cranworth died in 1934.
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Gurdon was the eldest son of Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Norfolk Artillery on 7 March 1900, and volunteered for active service in the Second Boer War in South Africa.
He was promoted to lieutenant on 25 August 1900.
Two years into the war, he was wounded, but was discharged from hospital to duty in May 1902, shortly before the end of hostilities.
He left Cape Town on board the "SS Walmer Castle" the following month, and arrived at Southampton in early July.
He inherited his father's title in October 1902 and later became a captain.
On 18 July 1903, he married Vera Ridley (a cousin of Matthew Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley).
In 1937, he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 358th (Suffolk)
Medium Regiment and on retiring in 1948, was made a Knight of the Garter.
Lord Cranworth died in 1964 and his title passed to his grandson, Philip
(his only son Robert having been killed in action in Libya in 1942).
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Question: Who is Bertram Gurdon, 2Nd Baron Cranworth's paternal grandfather?
Answer: Brampton Gurdon