Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Circa 1993

Circa 1993

This cartoon relates to a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh in September 1874 to Liverpool where he had opened a new Seamen's Orphanage

As well as damaging many buildings

Interior view of the prison in the Bowyer Tower

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Circa 1993Gathorne Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, British Conservative politician, c1890. Hardy (1814 1906) first entered Parliament as a Conservative member for Leominster in 1856. In 1865 he enjoyed the distinction of defeating William Gladstone in winning the parliamentary seat of Oxford. He served in various ministerial posts in Conservative governments between 1866 and his retirement from public life in 1892, at which time he was made an Earl. A lithograph