Anthony Gerard Edward Noel, 5th Earl of Gainsborough KStJ (24 October 1923 – 29 December 2009) was a British peer.
When World War II started, he was on his way to the United States so he attended the Jesuit-run Georgetown Preparatory School, then located in Washington DC.
As president of the Rural District Councils Association in 1965, he played a prominent role in opposing the Redcliffe-Maud Report's proposals for reorganising local councils which were implemented under the Local Government Act 1972.
He married at the Brompton Oratory on 23 July 1947 Mary Stourton (24 September 1925 – 30 December 2018),[2] elder daughter of Major the Hon.
The Earl and Countess had eight children:[3] Lord Gainsborough died in 2009 and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son Anthony.