Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook

Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook (18 December 1870 – 23 December 1915), styled as Lord Medway between 1906 and 1911, was a British hereditary peer.

Cranbrook was born in 1870, the son of Conservative politician John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook and his wife Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina Ridgway.

[1] Cranbrook served as a captain in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Buffs, and was a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) and Justice of the Peace (JP) for Kent.

He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1911, having previously been styled as Lord Medway.

[1] Cranbrook married Lady Dorothy Montagu Boyle (1879–1968), daughter of the David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow, Governor-General of New Zealand, on 25 April 1899 at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street.