936 Robert Gurdon

Constituency  : South  Norfolk  1880-85, Mid Norfolk 1885-92, Mid Norfolk  1895  ( from  1886  Liberal  Unionist  )

Robert  took  one  of  the  south  Norfolk  seats  from  the  Tories.

Robert  was  a  Norfolk  landowner  and  barrister. He  was  descended  from  a  17th  century  MP  and  High  Sheriff  for  Suffolk.

Robert  seconded  a  motion  for  an  increase  in  the Volunteers  Capitation  Grant  of  1886.

Robert  joined  the  Liberal  Unionists  in  1886.

Robert  later  became  chairman  of  Norfolk  County  Council  in  1889.  In  1899  he  became  a  peer  as  Baron  Cranworth.

He  died  in  1902  aged  73.