Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 Covent Garden Theatre and Covent

Covent Garden Theatre and Covent Garden Market

Lord Russell had declined the invitation

' The show is filmed in Didsbury

A sedan chair can be seen at bottom right

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 Covent Garden Theatre and CoventGathorne 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