Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook, Date of Birth
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About Caroline, Countess of Cranbrook
- Caroline Gathorne-Hardy, Countess of Cranbrook (née Jarvis; 18 December 1935) is an English aristocrat and campaigner on food quality issues.
- She is the wife of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook. She was born in London in 1935, the daughter of Colonel Ralph George Edward Jarvis of Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire and his wife, Antonia Mary Hilda Meade.
- Both of her parents were in MI6, and she moved to Portugal as a girl.She married the Earl of Cranbrook on 9 May 1967, and took up the married name Caroline Gathorne-Hardy.
- Their early home was in a jungle area of Malaya, where her husband worked as a zoologist.
- After three years, they took up residence at his family seat, Great Glemham House, Great Glemham, Saxmundham, Suffolk.
- She ran the estate farm and raised their three children.
- When her husband inherited the earldom of Cranbrook from his father, on 22 November 1978, she became a Countess.She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2004, for services to the red meat industry, after campaigning to save local abattoirs.
- She is president of the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.Lady Cranbrook appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 31 May 2009, and received The Oldie's 'Campaigner of the Year' Award in 2010.
- The Prince of Wales has called her "the doughtiest fighter for good sense in agriculture".She and her husband have three children: John Jason Gathorne-Hardy, Lord Medway (born 26 October 1968), heir apparent to the Earldom, born in Kuala Lumpur Dr.
- Lady Flora Gathorne-Hardy (born 10 October 1971) Hon.
- Argus Edward Gathorne-Hardy (born 28 May 1973)
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