Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, JP, DL (27 February 1845 – 11 November 1918) was a British Conservative politician, landowner, and writer.
Born Alfred Erskine Hardy, he was the third son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Stewart Orr.
The same year he was elected to the House of Commons for Canterbury, a seat he held until 1880, when the constituency was suspended.
[4] He was also the author of a work on natural history published in 1916, titled The Touch of a Vanished Hand.
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