Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth, DL (18 June 1829 – 13 October 1902) was a British Member of Parliament.
Gurdon was the eldest son of Brampton Gurdon (1797–1881), of Letton Hall in Norfolk and of Grundisburgh Hall in Suffolk, who was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from Norfolk. His mother Henrietta Susanna Ridley-Colborne (1810–1880) was the daughter of Lord Colborne, another Member of Parliament.[1]
In 1899 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cranworth, of Letton and Cranworth in the County of Norfolk.
Lord Cranworth married firstly, in 1862, Harriott Ellin Miles, daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet, and they had a daughter, Amy Harriott Gurden, in 1864. After her death in childbirth in 1864 he married secondly, in 1874, Emily Frances Heathcote, daughter of Robert Boothby Heathcote.
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.[1] Lady Cranworth died in 1934.
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Coat of arms of Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth
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A goat climbing up a rock with sprigs issuant therefrom all Proper.