John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton

The Right Honourable
The Lord Harding of Petherton
The Right Honourable The Lord Harding of Petherton
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	as a hereditary peer; 20 January 1989 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	John Charles Harding; 12 February 1928
Died	6 June 2016 (aged 88)
Political party	Conservative

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.

Arms

Coat of arms of John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton
	Crest Out of a mural crown Gules a cubit arm in armour the hand gauntleted grasping a field marshal's baton in bend sinister Proper. Escutcheon Argent on a bend Azure between two lions passant guardant Gules as many kukris in saltire Proper between two martlets Or. Supporters Dexter a private of the 1st Life Guards of early nineteenth century; sinister a Somerset Light Infantryman of the late eighteenth century; both habited and accoutred Proper. Motto Vigilant & Resolute ^[2]