1-273-667 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman, 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. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).