Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 'King Magnus in the marsh

'King Magnus in the marsh at Downpatrick'

' The show is filmed in Didsbury

Covent Garden Theatre and Covent Garden Market

Scene outside the Stock Exchange

Gathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman mb-code PG-0363-34 'King Magnus in the marshGathorne Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook, politician and statesman, 1881. 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. From Men of Mark: a