John Francis Gathorne-Hardy
- John Francis Gathorne-Hardy
General Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy GCB, GCVO, CMG, DSO (January 14, 1874 - August 21, 1949) was a British First World War General who served in Italy and the Western Front.
His parents were John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook and Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina Ridgway. He married Isobel Constance Mary Stanley, daughter of Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby and Lady Constance Villiers, on 10 December 1898.
He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the British Army as a commissioned officer in the Grenadier Guards in 1894. He went on to serve in the Second Boer War as a Captain and later brevet Major. He served as a General Staff Officer in the First World War. After commands as a General in Egypt and India, he was Commander in Chief at Aldershot from 1933 to 1937.
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