Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 2nd August 1964

2nd August 1964

Lord Russell had declined the invitation

Covent Garden Theatre and Covent Garden Market

The view from the bridge was the last glimpse of Venice convicts would get before they entered prison

A sedan chair can be seen at bottom right

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 2nd August 1964Gathorne 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