Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth, DL (18 June 1829 – 13 October 1902) was a British Member of Parliament.
His mother Henrietta Susanna Ridley-Colborne (1810–1880) was the daughter of Lord Colborne, another Member of Parliament.
[1] He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1856.
He was chairman of the Norfolk County Council from its institution and until early 1902, when he resigned due to ill health.
Lord Cranworth died aged 73 at his residence Letton Hall, near Thetford, on 13 October 1902, and was succeeded in the barony by his son from his second marriage Bertram Francis Gurdon.