John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton

The Lord Harding of Petherton
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
20 January 1989 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
Succeeded bySeat abolished[a]
Personal details
Born
John Charles Harding

(1928-02-12)12 February 1928
Died6 June 2016(2016-06-06) (aged 88)
Political partyConservative

John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (12 February 1928 – 6 June 2016), was a British Army officer and hereditary peer.

Harding was educated at Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford (MA). He was commissioned into the British Army and served with the 11th Hussars, reaching the rank of major. He succeeded his father John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, to the title of Baron Harding of Petherton in 1989.

By his wife, Harriet Hare (daughter of Major General Francis Hare), whom he married in 1966, he had two sons and one daughter. She died on 4 December 2012. Their daughter, Dido Harding, Baroness Harding of Winscombe, is married to Conservative MP John Penrose. Harding died in June 2016 at the age of 88,[1] and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.


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  1. ^ "Harding - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements".