HARCOURT, Rev. Leveson Venables Vernon (2 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury 1788; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1806–13; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; R. of Beckenham, Kent 1835–51; chancellor of York cath. 30 May 1827 to death; author of The Doctrine of the deluge 2 vols. 1838; A remonstrance to the bishop of Exeter on his letter to Archbishop of Canterbury 1850; Lectures on the four gospels 3 vols. 1851; On connexion of chemistry with agriculture 1855. d. 29 Portland place, London 26 July 1860.
HARCOURT, Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon (8 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 25 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Aug. 1806; served in Egypt 1807, on coast of Spain 1809, in West Indies 1824–7; captain 7 Aug. 1827; surveyed coast of Central America and California 1834–6; V.A. on h.p. 4 June 1861; sheriff of Yorkshire 1848; built and endowed Healey ch. Yorkshire 1849. d. Swinton park, Yorkshire 14 Aug. 1863. Leeds Mercury 17 Aug. 1863 p. 3.
HARCOURT, Rev. William Venables Vernon (4 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury, June 1789; served in R.N. on West India station 5 years; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1807–15; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; V. of Bishopsthorpe, Yorks. 1814–24; R. of Etton, Yorks. 1816; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorks. 1816–8; preb. of North Newbald, York 6 Aug. 1821 to death; R. of Whildrake 1824–33; R. of Bolton Percy 1837–65; president Yorkshire Philos. soc. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.R.S. 1824; founder and general sec. of British Assoc. 1831, president 1839; founder of Yorkshire sch. for the blind and Castle Howard reformatory; studied the action of heat on inorganic bodies; author of Symmetrical psalmody or portions of psalms translated into metrical stanzas 1855; What is truth? A poetical dialogue 1869; Sermons 1873. d. Nuneham near Oxford 1 April 1871. Quarterly Journal of geol. soc. xxviii, 40 (1872).
HARDEN, John William (youngest son of John Harden of Brathay hall, Westmoreland, d. 1847). b. 11 Dec. 1809; ed. at gr. sch. Manchester and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in Cheshire and North Wales; a revising barrister on northern circuit 1841; judge of county courts, circuit No. 7 (Lancashire) 1847 to death; author of Scripture proofs on leading doctrines of the Gospel, By J. W. H. 1873; Questions on the leading doctrines of the Gospel 1873. d. Bournemouth 16 April 1875.
HARDIMAN, James. b. Westport, co. Mayo Feb. 1782; admitted solicitor 1814; sub-commissioner of the Irish records 1830; member of R. Irish Academy and of Iberno-Celtic soc.; librarian to Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; published The history of the town and county of Galway 1820; Irish minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland 2 vols. 1831; edited R. O’Flaherty’s West Connaught 1846. d. Galway 13 Nov. 1855.
HARDING, Anne Raikes. b. 1780; author of Correction: a novel 3 vols. 1818; Decision: a tale 3 vols. 1819; The Refugees: an Irish tale 3 vols. 1822; Realities 4 vols. 1825; Dissipation: a novel 4 vols. 1827; Experience: a tale for all ages 4 vols. 1828; An epitome of universal history 1848; Sketches of the Highlands 18—and other works all published anonymously; contributed to reviews and periodicals. (m. Thomas Harding of Bristol, merchant). d. at residence of her son in law Rev. William Kynaston Groves, Boulogne 27 April 1858. G.M. June 1858 p. 684.
HARDING, Francis. b. 28 April 1799; entered navy 24 Jany. 1812, captain 23 Nov. 1841, retired V.A. 24 May 1867; served in Griper discovery ship 1824 in attempt to reach Repulse Bay. d. Cheltenham 2 Jany. 1875.
HARDING, Francis Pym. Ensign 22 foot 16 March 1838, lieut.-col. 25 Sep. 1857 to 5 Dec. 1871 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Balaklava, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. the Grove, Lymington, Hants. 25 Feb. 1875.
HARDING, Sir George Judd. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1802; served in Sicily, Spain and with the Prussian army 1812–18; colonel commandant R.E. 10 May 1859 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1858; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; governor of Guernsey 22 Nov. 1855 to 1 April 1859. d. Belmont lodge, Guernsey 5 July 1860 aged 72.
HARDING, George Perfect (son of Silvester Harding 1745–1809, artist and publisher). Miniature painter, exhibited 20 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1802–40; made water colour copies of ancient historical portraits; a founder of the Granger soc. 1840, which collapsed in 1843; F.S.A. 1839–47; fell into pecuniary difficulties and sold his collections of drawings; published Eighteen portraits of deans of Westminster 1822–3; Ancient paintings and brasses in the Abbey, Westminster 1825; Description of an account of the Princes of Wales 1828. d. Hercules buildings, Lambeth 23 Dec. 1853. G.M. May 1854 pp. 548–49.