Background
Cranworth was the eldest son of Brampton Gurdon of Letton Hall in Norfolk and of Grundisbugh Hall in Suffolk.
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Robert Gurdon
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Career
He was elected to the House of Commons for South Norfolk as a Liberal in 1880, a seat he held until 1885, when he was returned for Mid Norfolk. In 1886 he split with the Liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone over Irish Home Rule, and joined the Liberal Unionists. Cranworth continued to represent Mid Norfolk until 1892, and then again briefly in 1895.
He was Chairman of the Norfolk County Council from its institution and until early 1902, when he resigned due to ill health.
In 1899 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth, of Letton and Cranworth in the County of Norfolk. Lord Cranworth married, firstly, Harriott Ellin Miles, daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet, in 1862 and they had a daughter, Amy Harriott Gurden, in 1864.
Lady Cranworth died in 1934.
Membership
22nd United Kingdom Parliament. 23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament.
25th United Kingdom Parliament.
