John David Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook CBE KStJ FLS (15 April 1900 – 22 November 1978)[1] was a British hereditary peer and archaeologist.
Cranbrook was the son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook and Lady Dorothy Boyle, daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow.
[4] Cranbrook was elected to the office of Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1927 and retained the position until 1928, to the First Commissioner of Works.
3169 Suffolk Fighter Control Unit, Royal Auxiliary Air Force between 1950 and 1961.
[6] Cranbrook was married on 7 October 1926 to his cousin Bridget D'Oyly Carte, daughter of Rupert D'Oyly Carte and Lady Dorothy Gathorne-Hardy (daughter of John Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook).