Bertram Francis Gurdon, 2nd Baron Cranworth KG, MC (13 June 1877 – 4 January 1964) was a British peer and soldier.

[1] He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Norfolk Artillery Militia on 7 March 1900,[2] and volunteered for active service in the Second Boer War in South Africa.

He left Cape Town on board the SS Walmer Castle the following month,[4] and arrived at Southampton in early July.

Lord Cranworth died in 1964 and his title passed to his grandson, Philip (his only son Robert having been killed in action in Libya in 1942).

He wrote A Colony in the Making, or Sport and Profit in British East Africa (1912; 2nd edition 1919) and Kenya Chronicles (1939).