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, 1ST EARL or (1814-1906), British statesman, was born at Bradford on the 1st of October 1814, the son of John Hardy, and belonged to a Yorkshire family.
In Lord Salisburys administrations of 1885 and 1886 Lord Cranbrook was president of the council, and upon his retirement from public life concurrently with the resignation of the cabinet in 1892 he was raised to an earldom.
CRANBROOK, a market-town in the southern parliamentary division of Kent, England, 45 m.
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 19, 1881), the son of Isaac D'Israeli, was a British politician and author who entered Parliament in 1837 as Tory MP for Maidstone, after four unsuccessful campaigns for a seat in the House of Commons, the first time as a Radical.
In 1876 he was made Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.
Lord Cranbrook (previously Gathorne Hardy) succeeds Salisbury as Secretary for India.
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