Laurence Hardy, PC (14 April 1854 – 21 January 1933) was a

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British politician. He was a

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(MP) for Ashford from 1892 to 1918.

Biography

Hardy was the fourth son of

Sir John Hardy, 1st Baronet Sir John Hardy, 1st Baronet (23 February 1809 – 9 July 1888), was a British Conservative Member of Parliament. Background Hardy, born 23 April 1809, was the eldest son of John Hardy and Isabele Gathorne. Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of C ...

, of

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, and was educated at

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and

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, where he took

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in history. He was elected to the

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in 1892, representing Ashford as a Conservative. He was Deputy

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from 1905 to 1906, and was sworn of the

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in 1911. From 1917 to 1920, he was a member of the Defence Of The Realm Losses Commission. He was an

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from 1918 and Seneschal of

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from 1930.

Family

Hardy married Evelyn Wood, daughter of J. G. Wood of Thedden Grange, Alton, in 1886; she died in 1911. They had two sons and a daughter.

References

1854 births 1933 deaths 19th-century British people 20th-century British people UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford

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