John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton

John Charles Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton (12 February 1928 – 6 June 2016) was a British Army officer an 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, daughter of Major-General Francis Hare CB DSO (whom he married in 1966), he has two sons and one daughter. Harriet died on 4 December 2012. His daughter Dido Harding (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) is married to Conservative MP John Penrose. Harding died in June 2016 at the age of 88.