Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook
Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook( born 20 June 1933), styled Lord Medway until 1978, is a British zoologist, biologist, naturalist and peer.
Since 1956, he has been active in the fields of ornithology, mammalogy, and zooarchaeology and has influenced research and education in Southeast Asia.
His career focus was on the tiny birds that build edible nests.
Cranbrook was born in St George Hanover Square, the eldest child of John Gathorne- Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook, also a zoologist, and his second wife, Fidelity Seebohm, daughter of Hugh Exton Seebohm and sister of Lord Seebohm.
He was educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He earned his PhD in 1960 from the University of Birmingham.
A tropical biologist, Cranbrook worked in Malaya for three years before taking up residence at his family seat, Great Glemham House, Great Glemham, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
He sat as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords, and left the House in November 1999 as a result of the House of Lords Act 1999; he was not a candidate to retain a place in the House as an elected hereditary peer.
Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook
Caroline Gathorne- Hardy, Countess of Cranbrook(" née" Jarvis; 18 December 1935) is an English aristocrat and campaigner on food quality issues.
She is the wife of Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook.
She was born in London in 1935, the daughter of Colonel Ralph George Edward Jarvis of Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire and his wife, Antonia Mary Hilda Meade.
Both of her parents were in MI6, and she moved to Portugal as a girl.
She married the Earl of Cranbrook on 9 May 1967, and took up the married name Caroline Gathorne- Hardy.
Their early home was in a jungle area of Malaya, where her husband worked as a zoologist.
After three years, they took up residence at his family seat, Great Glemham House, Great Glemham, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
She ran the estate farm and raised their three children.
When her husband inherited the earldom of Cranbrook from his father, on 22 November 1978, she became a Countess.
She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire( OBE) in 2004, for services to the red meat industry, after campaigning to save local abattoirs.
She is president of the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.
Lady Cranbrook appeared as a" castaway" on the BBC Radio programme" Desert Island Discs" on 31 May 2009, and received The Oldie's' Campaigner of the Year' Award in 2010.
The Prince of Wales has called her" the doughtiest fighter for good sense in agriculture".
She and her husband have three children:
Robert Gathorne-Hardy
Robert" Bob" Gathorne- Hardy( 31 July 190211 February 1973) was an English garden writer.
Robert Gathorne- Hardy was the third of four sons of Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook.
He was educated at Eton College and was for forty years a resident of Stanford Dingley in Berkshire.
He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
Though he also wrote fiction(" Lacebury ManorOther Seas") and some bibliographical works, Gathorne- Hardy is best known for his books on plants that he researched while growing in the garden or about plants that he collected in different parts of the world.
He called himself an amateur gardener, but in reality was no amateur.
Gathorne- Hardy wrote about his own garden, his mother's garden, and that of his illustrator John Nash, each having their own point of view, their own distinct possibilities, and as he often said,"... their own snubs to give."
He also worked- alongside his elder brother Edward- as a director of the booksellers Elkin Mathews.
Gathorne- Hardy was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1960.
Gathorne- Hardy's sister, Anne( 1911- 2006), was the wife of George Heywood Hill, owner of the Mayfair bookshop bearing his name.
A nephew- son of his younger brother Anthony- was Jonathan Gathorne- Hardy.
Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy
Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy, who wrote as G. M. Gathorne-Hardy (28 January 1878 - 7 January 1972) was an English soldier, writer and Norse specialist.
Alfred Gathorne-Hardy
Alfred Erskine Gathorne- Hardy( 27 February 1845 – 11 November 1918), styled The Honourable from 1878, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament.
Gathorne- Hardy was the third son of Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Orr.
Born Alfred Hardy, he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Gathorne in 1878 like the rest of his family.
The same year he was elected to the House of Commons for Canterbury, a seat he held until 1880, when the constituency was suspended.
He returned to Parliament in 1886 when he was returned for East Grinstead, and continued to represent this constituency until 1895.
An observant naturalist he was also a keen shot and fisherman.
In 1900 Longmans published his" Autumns in Argyle with Rod and Gun", which is a collection of reminiscences of 30 years worth of sporting visits to his brother- in- law's estate at Poltalloch in Argyll.
This estate included historic Dunadd as well as Castle Sween, Carnasserie Castle, and Duntrune- the family seat of the Clan Malcolm.
The book has recently been reissued in a facsimile edition.
Gathorne- Hardy died in November 1918, aged 73.
Lady Anne Hill
Lady Anne Catherine Dorothy Hill( née Gathorne- Hardy; 1911–2006) was a British bookseller.
She was born in 1911, the daughter of Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook and Lady Dorothy Montagu Boyle.
In 1935, she met James Lees- Milne, and they were engaged for nine months.
In 1938, she married the bookseller George Heywood Hill, a cousin of her sister- in- law Fidelity Cranbrook( née Seebohm, second wife of the 4th Earl).
They lived in Warwick Avenue, Maida Vale, and later in Richmond.
They had two daughters.
Her brothers were John, 4th Earl of Cranbrook, booksellers Edward and Robert, and Anthony, whose son is Jonathan Gathorne- Hardy.
Edward Gathorne-Hardy
The Honourable( Ralph) Edward Gathorne- Hardy( 4 June 190118 June 1978) was a British Bohemian socialite.
The second child of Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook by his wife Lady Dorothy Boyle, the daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
One of the group designated by the press the' Bright Young People' in the 1920s, he shared a flat with Brian Howard at 39 Maddox Street in London, which was so run-down that fungus grew on the dilapidated staircase.
Although he was a respected antiquarian, specialising in 18th- century literature, and worked as a director and rare book expert for the booksellers Elkin Mathews alongside his brother Robert, he remained impecunious, largely living off his elder brother, John David Gathorne- Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook.
He also worked at various colleges and for the British Council.
After 1935, he lived in Athens, Cairo and Lebanon, returning to England in the late 1960s in poor health.
He died aged 77 on 18 June 1978.
Gathorne- Hardy's sister, Anne( 1911- 2006), was the wife of George Heywood Hill, owner of the Mayfair bookshop bearing his name.
A nephew- son of his younger brother Anthony- was Jonathan Gathorne- Hardy.
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
Jonathan Gathorne- Hardy( 17 May 1933 – 16 July 2019) was a British author, known for biographies, including one of Alfred Kinsey, and books of social history on the British nanny and public school system.
For his autobiography," Half an Arch", he received the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 2005.
He also wrote novels and children's literature.
Born in Edinburgh, he was brought up in London, and educated at Port Regis School, Bryanston and Cambridge.
As a boy, he was one of Benjamin Britten's favourites and he and his family provided the names for the characters in" The Little Sweep".
His involvement with Britten is described in John Bridcut's" Britten's Children".
He subsequently worked in advertising and publishing.
His grandfather was Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook.
His father was Surg.- Cmdr. Hon. Antony Gathorne Gathorne- Hardy, fourth child of the 3rd Earl.
His mother was Ruth Elizabeth Thorowgood.
Edward Gathorne- Hardy and Robert Gathorne- Hardy were his uncles, and his aunt was Lady Anne Hill, wife of George Heywood Hill, owner of the Heywood Hill bookshop in Mayfair.
He died at his home in Aldeburgh on 16 July 2019 at the age of 86.
John Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook
John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (22 March 1839 – 13 July 1911), known as Lord Medway from 1892 to 1906, was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Born John Stewart Hardy, Cranbrook was the eldest son of the Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Orr.
He assumed the additional surname of Gathorne by Royal licence in 1878 and when his father was elevated to the peerage as Earl of Cranbrook in 1892, he gained the courtesy title of Lord Medway.
Cranbrook was elected to the House of Commons for Rye in 1868, a seat he held until 1880, and later represented Mid Kent from 1884 to 1885 and Medway from 1885 to 1892.
In 1906 he succeeded his father as second Earl of Cranbrook and took his seat in the House of Lords.
Lord Cranbrook married Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina Ridgway, daughter of Joseph Ridgway, in 1867.
Their younger son, Hon.
Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, was a general in the army.
Their daughter, Lady Dorothy Milner Gathorne-Hardy, married Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
Lord Cranbrook died in July 1911, aged 72, and was succeeded by his eldest son Gathorne.
Lady Cranbrook died in 1931.
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, (1 October 1814 – 30 October 1906), known as Gathorne Hardy until 1878, was a prominent British Conservative politician, a moderate, middle-of-the road Anglican.
He held cabinet office in every Conservative government between 1858 and 1892 and notably served as Home Secretary from 1867 to 1868 and as Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1878.

Question: When did John Gathorne-Hardy, 2Nd Earl Of Cranbrook's father die?
Answer: 30 October 1906