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{{Short description|British author (1933–2019)}}
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'''Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy''' (born 1933 in [[Edinburgh]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] author, known for [[biography|biographies]], including one of [[Alfred Kinsey]], and books of [[social history]] on the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[nanny]] and [[public school (England)|public school]] system.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.lauracecil.co.uk/pages/Clients/Clients_Fiction/Gathorne-Hardy/JGH_Home.html|title= Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy|accessdate= 20 March 2010|author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |work= |publisher=Laura Cecil (author's agent) |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> For his autobiography, ''Half an Arch'', he received the [[J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography]] in 2005. He has also written novels and [[children's literature]].▼
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▲'''Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy''' (born17 May 1933<ref>{{Cite inbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bx7W-uJ10uoC&dq=Jonathan+Gathorne-Hardy+May+17%2C++1933&pg=PA14|title [[Edinburgh]])= isHalf aan [[UnitedArch: KingdomA Memoir|isbn = 9781857252019|last1 = Gathorne-Hardy|first1 = Jonathan|year = 2004}}</ref> – 16 July 2019) was a British]] author, known for [[biography|biographies]], including one of [[Alfred Kinsey]], and books of [[social history]] on the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[nanny]] and [[public school (England)|public school]] system.<ref>{{Citecite web |url= http://www.lauracecil.co.uk/pages/Clients/Clients_Fiction/Gathorne-Hardy/JGH_Home.html|title= Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy|accessdate= 20 March 2010|author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |work= |publisher=Laura Cecil (author's agent) |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> For his autobiography, ''Half an Arch'', he received the [[J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography]] in 2005. He has also writtenwrote novels and [[children's literature]]. He subsequently worked in advertising and publishing.
 
== Early life ==
HeBorn wasin broughtEdinburgh, uphe was raised in [[London]], and educated at [[Port Regis School]],<ref>Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, ''Half an Arch: a memoir'' (2004), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bx7W-uJ10uoC&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false pp. 55-56].</ref> [[Bryanston School|Bryanston]] and [[UniversityTrinity ofCollege, Cambridge|Cambridge]], where he received a major scholarship to read history.<ref>Gathorne-Hardy, ''Half an Arch'', p. 146.</ref><ref>{{Citecite web |url= http://thepeerage.com/p5837.htm#i58365|title= Jonathan Gathorne Garthorne-Hardy|accessdate= 20 March 2010|author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=The Peerage.com |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> As a boy, he was one of [[Benjamin Britten]]'s favourites and he and his family provided the names for the characters in ''[[The Little Sweep]]''. His involvement with Britten is described in John Bridcut's ''[[Britten's Children]]''.
 
His grandfather was [[Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook]]. His father was Surgeon-Commander Honorable Antony Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, the fourth child of the third Earl. His mother was Ruth Elizabeth Thorowgood. [[Edward Gathorne-Hardy]] and [[Robert Gathorne-Hardy]] were his uncles, and his aunt was [[Lady Anne Hill]], wife of [[George Heywood Hill]], who together founded the [[Heywood Hill]] bookshop in Mayfair.<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 1, p. 942</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-anne-hill-434363.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-anne-hill-434363.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Lady Anne Hill|date=31 January 2007|website=The Independent}}</ref> His cousin, born just a month after him, was the zoologist [[Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook]], who attended Cambridge at the same time as he did.<ref>Gathorne-Hardy, ''Half an Arch'', p. 147.</ref>
He subsequently worked in [[advertising]] and [[publishing]].
 
== Death ==
His grandfather was [[Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 3rd Earl of Cranbrook|Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy]], 3rd [[Earl of Cranbrook]]. His father was Surg.-Cmdr. Hon. Antony Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, fourth child of the 3rd Earl. His mother was Ruth Elizabeth Thorowgood. [[Robert Gathorne-Hardy]] and [[Edward Gathorne-Hardy]] were his uncles.
He died at his home in [[Aldeburgh]] on 16 July 2019 at the age of 86.<ref>[http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/234799/gathorne-hardy Gathorne-Hardy]</ref>
 
==Works==
 
*''Jane's Adventures Inin and Outout of the Book'' (1966)▼
*''Chameleon'' (1967)
*''The Office'' (1970)
*''The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny'' (1972) as ''The Unnatural History of the Nanny'' (US)▼
▲*''Jane's Adventures In and Out of the Book'' (1966)
*''Jane's Adventures on the Island of Peeg'' (1972)
▲*''The Rise and Fall of the British [[Nanny]]'' (1972, reissued 1993) as ''The Unnatural History of the Nanny'' (USUSA)
*''Jane's Adventures Inin Aa Balloon'' (1975)
*''The Airship Ladyship Adventure'' (1975)
*''The [[Public School (United Kingdom)|Public School]] Phenomenon, 597–1977'' (1977), as ''Old School Tie – Phenomenon of English Public School'' (USUSA)
*''Cyril Bonhamy vsv. Madam Big'' (1981)
*''Love, Sex, Marriage and Divorce'' (1981)
*''Cyril Bonhamy and the Great Drain Robbery'' (1983)
*''Doctors: Thethe Lives and Work of GPs'' (1984) (non-fiction)
*''The Centre Of The Universe Isis 18 Baedekerstrasse'' (1985)
*''Cyril Bonhamy and Operation Ping'' (1985)
*''The City Beneath The Skin'' (1986)
*''Cyril Ofof Thethe Apes'' (1987)
*''The Munros' New House'' (1987)
*''The Interior Castle: A Life of [[Gerald Brenan]]'' (1994)
*''ParticleThe TheoryTwin Detectives'' (19961995)
*''Particle Theory. A Novel'' (1996)
*''A Bookseller's War,: Heywood and Anne Hill'' (1997) (letters, editor)
*''[[Alfred Kinsey|Alfred C. Kinsey]]. Sex the Measure of All Things.: A Biography'' (1998)
*''Half An Arch'' (2004) (autobiography)
 
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