HARDING, James Duffield. b. Deptford 1798; exhibited 39 landscapes at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. 1811–58; Assoc. of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1820, member 1821; a successful teacher; made lithographic drawings for his Sketches at home and abroad 1836, published 1839; Louis Philippe sent him a service of Sevres china; invented papers of various tints and textures 1830 which were known as Harding’s papers; invented lithotint 1841; author of Lessons on art 1849, 8 ed. 1867; The principles and practice of art 1845, another ed. 1876, and 8 other books; furnished the illustrations to 20 works. d. 15 Lonsdale terrace, Barnes, Surrey 4 Dec. 1863. Art Journal 1850 p. 181, portrait, 1856 p. 270, 1864 p. 89; Encyclop. Brit. 9 ed. xi, 473, xiv, 701; I.L.N. xliii, 656, 657 (1863), portrait.
HARDING, Right Rev. John (3 son of Wm. Harding, chief clerk transport office). b. Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Jany. 1805; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1851; R. of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe and St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, London 1836–51; sec. of Pastoral aid soc.; bishop of Bombay 31 July 1851, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug., resigned April 1868; author of Texts and thoughts for christian ministers 1874 and charges and single sermons. d. St. Helens lodge, Ore near Hastings 18 June 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 619 (1874).
HARDING, Sir John Dorney (eld. son of Rev. John Harding, R. of Coyty and Coychurch, Glamorganshire). b. Rockfield, Monmouthshire 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1837; student L.I. 1829, student I.T. 1833, barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 2 Nov. 1837; advocate general 5 March 1852–62 when he retired; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1852; bencher of his inn 1852, reader 1867; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of An essay on the influence of Welsh tradition upon European literature, By Sir J. D. H. 1840. d. Sandywell asylum, Dowdeswell near Cheltenham 23 Nov. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii, 136–41 (1882).
HARDING, Rev. Thomas (4 son of William Harding of St. Margaret’s, Westminster). b. 1806; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; chaplain Bethlehem hospital 1831–3; V. of Bexley, Kent 9 Oct. 1833 to death; editor of H. Bullinger’s Five decades of Godlie sermons, Parker Soc. 4 vols. 1849–52; author of Justification by faith through the propitiation of Christ a safeguard for the times. Three sermons 1868, and 17 single sermons. d. Bexley 12 Nov. 1874.
HARDING, William (3 son of Robert Harding of Upcott, Devon, d. 1804). b. 16 Aug. 1792; ensign 5 foot 11 July 1811, lieut. 1813 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; major on h.p. 14 Nov. 1826; F.G.S.; author of History of Tiverton 2 vols. 1845–7. d. Barnstaple 15 Jany. 1886.
HARDING, Wyndham (brother of Sir J. D. Harding 1809–68). b. 9 Aug. 1818; ed. at Rugby; worked on Manchester and Leeds railway 1836–38; sec. to Glasgow, Greenock and Paisley railway 1839, acting general manager to 1844; general superintendent of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1844–45; sec. to London and South Western railway Sep. 1848 to Oct. 1852; A.I.C.E. March 1846, member of council; F.R.S.; freighted at his own expense the first Australian emigrant ship which sailed from Southampton under superintendence of Mrs. Chisholm 184-; author of Railways. The gauge question 1845, 4 ed. 1846; Alphabet of Colour 1853. d. near Cheltenham 15 April 1885. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 97–100 (1856).
HARDINGE, Henry Hardinge, 1 Viscount (3 son of Rev. Henry Hardinge 1754–1820, R. of Stanhope, Durham). b. Wrotham, Kent 30 March 1785; ensign Queen’s Rangers, Upper Canada 1798; deputy quartermaster general in Portuguese army during Peninsular war 1809–14; lieut. col. 40 foot 12 April 1814; captain 1 foot guards 1814–27 when placed on h.p.; served campaign of 1815 with Prussian army as brigadier general; severely wounded at Ligny 16 June 1815, left hand amputated; M.P. for Durham 1820–30, for St. Germans 1830–31, for Newport, Cornwall 1831–32, for Launceston 1832–44; clerk of the ordnance 1823–27 and Jany. to May 1828; sec. of war 1828–30 and 1841–44; P.C. 30 May 1828; second to Duke of Wellington in his duel with the Earl of Winchelsea 21 March 1829; sec. of Ireland 30 July to 26 Nov. 1830 and 17 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; col. of 97 foot 4 March 1833, of 57 foot 31 May 1843 to death; governor general of India 6 May 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; present at battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah and Sobraon; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 1 July 1844; created Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and King’s Newton, co. Derby 2 May 1846; granted pension of £5000 per annum by H.E.I. Co. 1846; master general of the Ordnance 5 March 1852; commander in chief 23 Sep. 1852 to 15 July 1856; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 2 Oct. 1855. d. South park near Tunbridge Wells 24 Sep. 1856, 2 portraits of him by Sir Francis Grant in National portrait gallery. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series (1836), portrait; T. Collins’s Portraits and memoirs of eminent naval and military personages (1847) No. 1, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii, 130 (1847), portrait; J. J. Briggs’s History of Melbourne in the county of Derby, 2 ed. (1852) 148–57, portrait.
HARDINGE, Rev. Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (son of Rev. Henry Hardinge of Hampton, Middlesex). b. 22 March 1780; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; R. of Crowhurst, Sussex 1804 to death; V. of Tunbridge, Kent 1809 to death; succeeded his uncle 5 Nov. 1826; author of Plain discourses 1821; A practical exposition of the election of grace 1847; Baptismal regeneration 1850. d. Boundes Park, Tunbridge Wells 3 Feb. 1864.
HARDINGE, Richard. b. 14 April 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, col. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1825. d. 32 Hyde park sq. London 20 July 1864.
HARDMAN, Edward Townley. b. Drogheda 6 April 1845; ed. at R. coll. of science, Dublin; on staff of geological survey, Ireland 1870 and 1885; F.R.G.S. Ireland; F. Chem. soc.; went to Kimberley district, West Australia and reported on the mineral resources and the gold fields 1883–5, a range of mountains in West Australia named after him; wrote many papers in Journal Geol. Soc. of Ireland and Proc. of Irish Acad. from 1871 onward. d. Wicklow 30 April 1887. Geological Mag. (1887) p. 334.